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In Myanmar, hardly a day passes without a report of another village, town or township being “liberated” by one or more of the ethnic resistance organizations (EROs) or People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) fighting to overthrow the nation’s military junta, the State Administrative Council (SAC).
The recently enacted Military Service Law, announced on February 10, has further shaken an already rattled and exhausted Myanmar population. That’s especially true for young people who meet the criteria under the law for conscription and who could be forced to fight on the side of a war they don’t support.
Myanmar’s auto-destruct military regime has produced another data point of desperation by invoking an unused conscription law, fueling alarm that men aged between 18 and 35 and women between 18 and 27 could be called up for duty for anywhere between two to five years.
Myanmar all but fell from the international conscience in 2023, with the world subsumed by the Ukraine war, conflict in the Middle East and the dumpster fire of domestic American politics Myanmar, which competed with Sudan for most neglected conflict, was further marginalized by misconceptions that its post-coup civil war had settled into a grinding post-coup stalemate.
A shaky agreement to end fighting in northern Myanmar has served to highlight concerns in Beijing over the ongoing unrest – and the limits of China’s power to influence the ongoing civil war.