The law dates back to 1959, when it was created by General Ne Win, and was amended in November 2010 by then-dictator Than Shwe. It was, however, never enforced under Ne Win, Than Shwe, Thein Sein’s ...

A long-dormant conscription law was enforced last year as the army reeled from a string of battlefield defeats to ethnic ...

Press gangs prowl the streets of Mandalay and Bagan, snatching people on their way to or from work on trumped-up charges or for no reason at all.

Four years after a coup, Myanmar remains in a civil war, driving thousands to seek refuge in Thailand, where they struggle to ...

The number of mass killings of civilians via airstrikes, drone attacks, shelling, missile attacks, and through landmines and ...

Since the 2021 military coup, the people of Myanmar have continued to endure horrific atrocities and widespread human rights ...

Fleeing the economic ruin that followed the coup, and the threat of conscription into a military they loathe, Myanmar exiles in Thailand say that their safety comes with a new set of problems ...

Myanmar's embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, as it seeks to shore up its forces fighting rebel groups opposed to its ...

Four years after Myanmar’s military coup sparked gunfighting, torture, rape and arson in Rakhine state, young Rohingya men ...