Essay: Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before
In an article first published on The Conversation, NYI NYI KYAW says the impacts of the ongoing conflict on Myanmar’s youth will have consequences that will haunt the nation for decades…
Putin orders conscription of 133,000 servicemen in Russia’s autumn draft
Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia’s autumn draft that starts on 1st October and goes until the end of the year, according to a Kremlin decree published on Monday. The decree, published in Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calls to carry out the draft of citizens “aged […]
Burkina Faso: How the military junta is conscripting critics to fight Islamist rebels
SOFIA CHRISTENSEN, of Reuters, reports on accusations Burkina Faso’s ruling junta have kidnapped and conscripted some of its critics…
Myanmar junta’s conscription plan lays bare toll of fighting rebels
Reuters 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 ranks, analysts, diplomats and a defector said. The plan, which was announced this week, comes after the junta lost control of swathes of […]
Burkina Faso junta’s conscription of critics rattles civil society and unions
Reuters Burkina Faso’s military junta is abusing an emergency law to conscript perceived dissidents and critics to join a deadly fight against militants linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, warned lawyers, journalists and watchdog Human Rights Watch this week. In a series of statements, civil society groups and unions for journalists and lawyers accused the […]
Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to “turn tide of war”
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts. Kyiv has been saying for weeks that Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
Ukraine conflict: More Russian men look to avoid military service, some lawyers and rights groups say
Reuters correspondents report on claims an increased number of young Russian men are looking to avoid the country’s mandatory military service amid the ongoing war in Ukraine in what illustrates the ambivalence in Russian society to the conflict…