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By ROBIN McDOWELL and MATTHEW PENNINGTON, Associated Press
Thu, 10/30/2014 - 12:52am

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar has freed more than a thousand political prisoners since former military rulers handed over power three years ago, a move that has smoothed the former pariah state's international rehabilitation. Now the government says the job is done. Human-rights activists and the U.S. say, not so fast....

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