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Conscription Crisis: Myanmar’s Military Recruiting Young Men at Gunpoint. Young men are being arrested and conscripted at checkpoints in Magwe Region’s Aunglan town after many fled or bribed their way out, and local administrators threw a wrench into the recruitment process.

Effort to conscript young people for military service in Myanmar facing intense resistance from young people, their families, and the local administrators who help select conscripts, the military is turning to a foolproof method of replenishing its ranks: recruitment at gunpoint.

In Magwe Region’s Aunglan town, the military forcibly has recruited about 140 young men since late last month, but about 60 of them escaped or bribed their way out, according to residents and resistance fighters in the township.

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