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

(Reuters) -Myanmar's ruling junta said on Friday it has already discharged 93 minors from military service, responding to a United Nations report last month accusing it and its allies of recruiting ...

Since December 2024, the Arakan Army (AA) has been entrenching itself in the Rakhine state after the fall of the Western ...

In Naypyitaw and beyond, forced conscription raids intensify under the junta’s 2024 draft law, with recruits taken at ...

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.

The implementation of the People’s Military Service Law will allow the military to increase its control over women’s lives and bodies. Myanmar’s current conscription system is an act of ...

Ko Nyi, 33, fled his home in Tada-U town in central Myanmar to Myawaddy town near the Thailand border after his name was listed for mandatory military service. It was shortly after the military junta ...

DW caught up with draft evaders fleeing conscription in Myanmar after the military activated a law, calling up young men and women.

Myanmar has started to impose conscription laws that require young men and women to join the military. But people the ABC spoke to are considering getting married or fleeing the country to exploit ...

Myanmar’s military regime is seeking to revive a policy of conscription. Instead of bolstering national solidarity, activating the law will undermine it, say two ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute ...

Fears of mass migration from Myanmar as military plans to draft thousands Myanmar’s generals aim to make up for recruitment shortfalls and battlefield losses by drafting thousands of civilians.

Jeffery Soe is filled with fear because of the ruling Myanmar military’s recent diktat on compulsory military service for young people. The junta's February move to impose conscription starting from ...