Political Prisoners in Myanmar

Myanmar released 69 prisoners on November 15th in "amnesty" or pardoning of offenses. Myanmar has recently shifted from military rule to democracy. Most of the prisoners were minorities. For nearly 50 years, Myanmar's military rule had detained several thousand political prisoners. Nearing the end of the rule about 2500 prisoners were detained with many being tortured (Huffington Post). Political prisoners can be anyone who could potentially or literally be harmful to the government. From activists and politicians to journalists and comedians.The political prisoners have been released because of the change in rule, which led to a regulation change. 

Now, if comedians can be detained as political prisoners what can stop governments from detaining any person on the street? What is the limit to what can and can't be done by government officials.There are many prisoners who are not even declared. Those people have families who have not been informed of their whereabouts and this isn't even just in Myanmar but in countries all of the World. If so many people can get away with what is happening to these people, how is that right? There will be no limit to their power and the different governments will be able to get away with so much more and so much worse. It all starts from the many people. However so many countries do not recognize the people who make up society. Nothing can effectively be done if only a select few people are the ones deciding what happens for all the people. And this is being shown through what is happening in Myanmar. They are going from a government based in closed sessions where only a few if not only one person is controlling everything else to a government where there is discussion on what is best for everyone.