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Myanmar Junta Begins Conscription Early.

Myanmar’s junta summoned enlisted men to training schools and military units in Yangon, Mandalay, Magwe and elsewhere in its first conscription batch on Friday. “Welcoming ceremonies” for hundreds of conscripts were shown by pro-regime Telegram channels. In Yangon, most men were sent to the No.1 Advanced Military Training School in Gyoehpyu, Taikkyi Township.

A Thingangyun Township resident said conscripts assembled at the General Administration Department office since Thursday and taken to the training school in Taikkyi on Friday morning.

In Naypyitaw, conscripts have been taken to No.5 Basic Military Training School in Yay Ni, Yedashe Township, Bago Region. At a welcoming event at a training school in Naypyitaw on Friday on Telegram, “Bullet” Hla Swe, a former lieutenant colonel military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, donated money to support the recruits.

Recruits were seen at No.7 Basic Military Training Corp in Taungdwingyi Township, Magwe Region, on Friday morning and at the Central Region Command in Mandalay Region. On Saturday more recruits arrived at No.1 Basic Military Training Corp in Mingone village tract, Hlegu Township in Yangon. Junta officers from the Central Command on Saturday visited No.3 Basic Military Training School in Yamethin Township, Mandalay Region, to welcome hundreds of Mandalay recruits.

A retired army officer in Yangon said medical tests and other physical and mental assessments would normally take a few weeks but junta’s need for troops might mean the processes are rushed.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...early.html