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Myanmar releases 1,619 prisoners in New Year’s amnesty

YANGON, April 17 (Xinhua) — Myanmar’s State Administration Council remitted sentences of a total of 1,619 prisoners on Sunday, the first day of Myanmar calendar New Year.

According to the council’s orders, 1,577 Myanmar national prisoners and 42 foreign prisoners are remitted sentences to mark the country’s traditional New Year and on humanitarian ground, as well as in view of relations between the respective c