Khin Ohmar, founder and chairperson of Progressive Voices, a Myanmar human rights research and advocacy organization, said the conscription law will “provide the junta legal cover for abusive ...

A year into Myanmar military’s conscription drive, thousands of young men and women have done much the same, either heading for rebel-held borderlands out of the military regime’s reach or ...

Thousands of drafted soldiers are being fed directly into key front-line conflicts in Shan, Mandalay and elsewhere, say ...

Myanmar’s Youth Leaders Fear Conscription Law March 02, 2024 10:52 AM By Tommy Walker; FILE - People wait in line to enter the Thai Embassy for visas in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 20, 2024.

BANGKOK--Myanmar’s military government on Saturday activated for the first time a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if ...

Myanmar’s military enacted a conscription law in February that makes 14 million men and women eligible to be drafted into the military and says it will conscript up to 60,000 new recruits a year ...

A young man avoids Myanmar's conscription service by fleeing to Thailand As the civil war in Myanmar rages on, the country's military junta is forcibly conscripting young people to replenish its ...

The Myanmar's military conscription plan reveals the heavy toll that months of incessant fighting against rebels have had on its troops and the struggles the generals are facing to replenish their ...

Young people say they’re scrambling to avoid a new mandatory conscription law with some planning hasty exit strategies from Myanmar or weighing up joining resistance forces CNN values your ...

Myanmar’s military drafts thousands in first year of conscription drive. Forced conscription has failed to change the course of Myanmar’s grinding civil war, and many are refusing to serve.