Myanmar's army is facing battlefield challenges and grants amnesty to troops jailed for being AWOL


BANGKOK: Myanmar’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 on Thursday (Dec 7).

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.

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