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27-02-2024, 06:55 PM
As conscription looms, are forced to choose flight or fight?. Only one thing in their mind, is refusal to fight for regime that thrown their country into chaos.
2-weeks after Myanmar’s military junta announced plans to begin forcing young people to join its army’s depleted ranks, many are growing increasingly desperate to find some way to avoid this fate ahead of a recruitment drive expected to begin in April.
The regime says that under the 2010 People's Military Service Law, as many as 14 million Myanmar nationals are eligible for the draft. Most would be required to provide two years of military service—or up to five years in the event of a “national emergency.”
Women who make up more then half of it figure will be called up anytime soon, the junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun, announcement has alarmed everyone of draft age, as well as their families.
Thet Thet, a resident of Yangon’s Thaketa Township, said she has already begun looking for ways to get her 21. Myanmar’s junta is up to its old tricks with attempt to play the ‘Suu Kyi card’
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmars...-kyi-card/
2-weeks after Myanmar’s military junta announced plans to begin forcing young people to join its army’s depleted ranks, many are growing increasingly desperate to find some way to avoid this fate ahead of a recruitment drive expected to begin in April.
The regime says that under the 2010 People's Military Service Law, as many as 14 million Myanmar nationals are eligible for the draft. Most would be required to provide two years of military service—or up to five years in the event of a “national emergency.”
Women who make up more then half of it figure will be called up anytime soon, the junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun, announcement has alarmed everyone of draft age, as well as their families.
Thet Thet, a resident of Yangon’s Thaketa Township, said she has already begun looking for ways to get her 21. Myanmar’s junta is up to its old tricks with attempt to play the ‘Suu Kyi card’
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmars...-kyi-card/
