Families wait outside Yangon's Insein prison as Myanmar's junta releases over 7,000 people to mark Buddhist Lent. Buses carry released prisoners and leave the prison premises. Myanmar reduced ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's 33-year prison sentence by six years in a partial pardon, as the junta struggles to quell bloody resistance to its rule.

Myanmar frequently grants amnesty to thousands of prisoners to commemorate holidays or special Buddhist dates.