Myanmar Pardons 3,000 Prisoners

Myanmar prisoners depart a truck after they were released from Insein prison, Oct. 7, 2014.

Myanmar prisoners are released from Insein prison, Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 7, 2014.

Brigadier General Thein Swe, who was sentenced to 152 years in prison following the 2004 ouster of an ex-intelligence chief, speaks to the media as he arrives at Yangon Airport, after being released from a prison, near Mandalay, Oct. 7, 2014.

Myanmar prisoners were released from Insein prison, Yangon, Myanmar, Oct. 7, 2014.