The junta granted amnesty to 9.652 prisoners on 76th anniversary of the independence from the UK; the amnesty was conditioned on the agreement that, should they reoffend, they would be required to serve both the remaining sentence and any new punishment

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  Two rare twin elephants took their first steps in the Bago region

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  The Myanmar military has designated as 'terrorist' groups three major ethnic armed groups that have advanced in parts of northern and western Myanmar over the past year

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  Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh held demonstrations in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee, demanding an end to the violence and their return to Myanmar

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