Myanmar faced calls on Thursday to free its remaining political prisoners as the opposition expressed disappointment with a much-anticipated amnesty that left most key dissidents behind bars. The regime pardoned more than 200 political detainees, according to Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), but kept most of its roughly 2,000 political detainees locked up. “There are still many prisoners who we expected to be released and who the people expected to be released. We feel frustrated,” Nyan Win, spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, told AFP. Some observers, however, said the amnesty could be one of several by a regime that…
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