BANGKOK (AP) – Myanmar´s military government on Thursday pardoned nearly 10,000 prisoners to mark the 76th anniversary of gaining independence from Britain, but it wasn´t immediately clear if any of those released included the thousands of political detainees jailed for opposing army rule. The head of Myanmar ´s military council, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, pardoned 9,652 prisoners to mark the holiday, state-run MRTV television reported. Min Aung Hlaing also granted amnesty to 114 jailed foreigners who will be deported, MRTV said in a separate report. The prisoner releases were expected to begin Thursday and take several days to be completed. At Insein Prison in Yangon – notorious for decades for housing political detainees – relatives of prisoners gathered at…
