Freedom for these Burmese political prisoners is a good sign that shift to democracy is underway

Myanmar has freed 113 political prisoners under an amnesty ordered by the country’s new government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, local media reported Saturday. The releases included 69 student protestors arrested over an education protest that was crushed in a violent police crackdown in March 2015. The releases came along with a general amnesty of…