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On a quiet morning on February 5, children in Deemaw Soe Township, Karenni state, attended school as usual. Despite fierce fighting throughout the state, no recent conflict in the area suggested an attack was looming.
Myanmar's ruling military plans to call up young people for mandatory service from April and also require retired security personnel to serve, media reports cited a junta spokesman as saying, as the army struggles to crush an anti-junta insurgency.
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year.
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.
BANGKOK -- The announcement of sweeping conscription rules by Myanmar's military government has sparked a social media backlash and fresh calls by resistance forces for popular support. The move also marks a turning point for the military, which has portrayed itself as a professional fighting force but has seen accelerating defeats and desertions in recent months.
In a jungle clearing deep inside Southeast Asia's opium-growing Golden Triangle, four young men light incense sticks and kneel to pray before a bronze statue of an imposing figure astride a horse.
For more than three years, Myanmar’s biggest cities have remained under the unyielding grip of the military junta. But the streets of places like Yangon were uncharacteristically quiet Monday evening as a sense of fear pervaded the country.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's shadow government is accusing employment companies of helping the military regime's funding by assisting in the collection of taxes from Myanmar workers who have fled abroad.