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More than 30 young men arrested for military conscription in Bilin

HURFOM: The military junta arrested more than 30 young men on the Bilin – Taung Zune Motorway in Bilin Township, Mon State, and forced them to join the military training for conscripts. 

The junta’s army is in desperate need of privates to reinforce troop numbers.   According to local sources, they have frequently been conducting arrests of young men along the Bilin – Taung Zune Motorway, and forcing those arrested to join the army.

“They’ve conducted more arrests in the evening when young men return from work. They didn’t conduct an arrest at a single place. They have a mobile team to conduct arrests. Sometimes, they beat those arrested,” said a Taung Zune villager.

The arrested young men are in the 20–30-year-old range, making them eligible for conscription.  Most have lost contact with their family members.

The arrested are from Taung Zune, Thit Toe Kyune, Zoke Toke, Ah Nile Pon and Hpwal Ka Lar villages and most of them have been sent to and detained at the 6^th Military School of the Mawlamyine based Southeast Military Command.

The frequent arrests by the junta’s army have frightened the local young men who now avoid using the Bilin – Taung Zune Motorway.

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