Burma's military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave, seeking to get them to return to active duty, a police officer and an army officer said Thursday.
The releases follow an an amnesty plan announced earlier this week to get them back into service in order to ease an apparent manpower shortage.
The plan was an apparent consequence of the military facing the greatest battlefield pressures since it seized power...
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