Myanmar' army is facing battlefield challenges and grants amnesty to troops jailed for being AWOL
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FILE - Gen. Zaw Min Tun, spokesman and deputy information minister, speaks during a media tour fo the sitting Maravijaya Buddha statue, Friday, July 21, 2023 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, the spokesperson for the ruling military council, was quoted Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in state media as saying that about 1,000 soldiers who deserted or went absent without leave or had retired had gone through the process of requesting the military for their return to service. Myanmars 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, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
In this photo provided by the Kokang online media, members of an ethnic armed forces group, one of the three militias known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance, check weapons the group allegedly seized from Myanmar's army outpost on a hill in Hsenwi township in Shan state, Myanmar, on Nov. 24, 2023. A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack. (The Kokang online media via AP)
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FILE - Gen. Zaw Min Tun, spokesman and deputy information minister, speaks during a media tour fo the sitting Maravijaya Buddha statue, Friday, July 21, 2023 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, the spokesperson for the ruling military council, was quoted Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in state media as saying that about 1,000 soldiers who deserted or went absent without leave or had retired had gone through the process of requesting the military for their return to service. Myanmars 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, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)
