Junta arrests 17 young men in Tenasserim and forces them to join army
February 18, 2025
HURFOM: On February 17th, 2025, the military junta has arrested 17 young men from Tenasserim Town, Myeik District, Tenasserim Division at night and forced them to join the military training for conscripts, local residents reported HURFOM.
The ward administrators and the junta’s forces claimed they would check the “visitors’ list” in Chaung Gyi and Chaung Ngae wards, Tenasserim Town but arrested young men during conducting the check.
“Those all arrested are native to Tenasserim. Some of them have been accused of dealing with drug. But most of them are innocent. The junta has recklessly arrested them,” said a local man from Chaung Ngae ward.
The junta has accused six of the arrested of dealing with drug trade but the local residents have no idea with the arrest of other remaining young men.
Currently, the 17 arrested young men have been detained at the 557th light infantry battalion at the top of the Tenasserim Bridge in Out King village and the military has forced them to join the military training for conscripts, according to the sources close to the victims’ families.
“When the families have made inquiries about them, (the junta replied) they have to join army. If they are convicted of drug crime, they must be transferred to the police station and face legal charges. But now, they all are detained at the military battalion,” said the source.
The local residents told HURFOM it was the first time that a huge number of young men were arrested at once in Tenasserim Town after the approval of the legal procedures of the public conscription law.
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