Crime rises after amnesty

RANGOON: -- A man who was released from prison on July 30 in one of President Thein Sein’s several amnesties was arrested for theft in Meiktila, Mandalay Region, the following day, according to the local force.

Following a tip, the police investigated the sale of an allegedly stolen motorbike on July 31. The man, age 27, was found to have stolen the motorbike from a house in Yadanamanaung Ward at 2pm on July 31. The Meiktila Township Police Force has filed a suit against him under section 380/54 of the Penal Code. He was found to have an existing criminal record.

Since he took office in 2010, President Thein Sein granted amnesty for 55 prisoners on May 16, 2011; 241 prisoners on October 11, 2011; 34 on January 2, 2012; 302 on January 13, 2012; 46 on July 3, 2012; 88 on September 17, 2012; several non-political prisoners on November 15, 2012; 69 on April 13, 2013; 23 on May 17, 2013; thousands of prisoners on January 3, 2014; and more than 6,900 prisoners, including Chinese timber smugglers and other criminals, on July 31, 2015.

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A little understanding please, the man has just got out of prison, he needed the money for a fresh start. Instead of praising him for using his initiative he goes straight back to prison,it's so unfair.

Yep, them amnesties are wonderful things !

Why is this news? they cite one case... some sort of "crime spree"?

It's not news. It's a statement the President f**ked up.