Rangoon, Oct 11 (ANI): Burma will release hundreds of political prisoners and clear the way for the country's democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to take part in parliamentary elections later this year, Western diplomats have said.
Details of an emerging political accommodation between Burma's Nobel laureate and the country's military regime began to emerge on Monday amid growing hopes for an end to the country's international isolation, The Telegraph reports.
Assistant U.S Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said there were "dramatic developments under way" and that Aung San Suu Kyi had held "very consequential dialogue" with leaders in the military-backed government. ccording to Western diplomats, Shwe Mann, Speaker of Burma's lower house of parliament, told Norway's visiting Deputy Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide that the ruling generals will begin releasing its more than 1200 political prisoners "within days" at a meeting on Friday last week.
His claim was supported by an unnamed Burmese official who said prisoners would be released before the country's president Thein Sein leaves for an official visit to India on Wednesday.
Diplomatic sources told The Daily Telegraph the releases were now regarded as an inevitable part of a series of political reforms aimed at reconciliation with the country's democracy movement. (ANI)
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