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Ten conscripts manage to escape in Kaw Thaung

HURFOM: Local residents from Kaw Thaung Town, Kaw Taung Township, Tenasserim Division, reported to HURFOM that ten men who were forcefully collected as conscripts by the military junta managed to escape.

After being detained in Ranong, Thailand, about 120 men and women were sent back to Burma by Thai authorities on January 22^nd, 2025. The junta arrested 58 young men from that group, who are eligible for military conscription.  

The junta forcibly sent some of the young men to the Kaw Thaung based 432^nd Light Infantry Battalion. They will join the 9th batch of conscripts preparing for military service. 

On February 1^st, 46 young men conscripted were sent by boat to “Shwe Du” educational school in Myeik Township.

“On February 3^rd, two days after reaching the school, 16 young men managed to escape at night. Six of them were recaptured by the junta but ten managed to escape,” said one of the escapees.

Two escapees, 32-year-old Thet Nine Htwe and 49-year-old Ko Nine Win Tun, were able to take shelter with the local People’s Defense Force on March 6^th. HURFOM has not been able to confirm the whereabouts of the remaining escapees.

On February 24^th, 2025, Thai authorities deported 200 Burmese citizens to Burma. The junta arrests those who are eligible for military conscription and then forcibly sends them to conscription camps across Tenasserim Division.

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