The billionaire and ex-premier ousted in a 2006 military coup was jailed for eight years on graft and abuse-of-power charges in August but he would be granted early release.
The Thai embassy in Yangon has been swamped with young men and women seeking visas to get out of the country since the announcement of the service last Saturday.
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Prominent activist Ma Noble Aye and Ko Lay Khwin from Yangon were arrested in Bago Region in late January and are thought to have been killed.
Observers tell The Irrawaddy that regime chief Min Aung Hlaing is getting desperate by calling up hostile civilians.
In remembrance of Wolfgang H. Trost, who dies on Feb. 17, The Irrawaddy revisits his article about a vanishing ethnic group in the country.
The billionaire and ex-premier ousted in a 2006 military coup was jailed for eight years on graft and abuse-of-power charges in August but he would be granted early release.
The Thai embassy in Yangon has been swamped with young men and women seeking visas to get out of the country since the announcement of the service last Saturday.
Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing used his plan for a sham election to justify enforcement of mandatory military service covering 14 million people. 
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