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The gunmen demanded that the Myanmar military regime release its political prisoners and start a dialogue with dissident leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and that the parliament elected in 1990 be allowed to convene.
In fact, I even feel like a wimp for having to try to curry sympathy for death-row prisoners by pointing out the procedural irregularities in their cases; I oppose executing them even when they are monsters in human form, because, while I can easily understand why someone would want to kill the murderer of their near and dear, I can't at all understand why someone would want to give the state the power to kill them--even if it's not being abused in that exact case, it's going to be, and probably sooner rather than later, as the much-publicized racial statistics of the death penalty's application demonstrate.
In an editorial Thursday, the newspaper said the French government might not be wrong to want to integrate the Syrian president into the process rather than exclude him, but asked, "All the same, can one tolerate the imprisonment of more than two thousand prisoners of conscience in a country which one is seeking to make one's 'strategic partner'?"
Three thousand loaves were shipped off anyway--the guards suspected a burglary, not a poisoning--and as a result some 2,000 of the 15,000 prisoners came down with food poisoning.
The Republican spin: Clemency is about security, and the prisoners' release sends the wrong message about terrorism.