Recruitment
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Myanmar
Regime administrators ask civilians to chip in for new army enlistees
Local officials have dubiously claimed that the payments they are soliciting will be used to support new volunteers in the army, sometimes presenting voluntary enlistment as an alternative to selecting conscripts by random lottery
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News
Junta-appointed administrator shot dead in Rakhine’s Thandwe Township
The assassination is just the latest targeting officials involved in efforts to begin forcibly recruiting civilians into the military
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In-Depth
Military seeks new recruits from ‘struggling families’ of active troops
Impoverished families of soldiers and police are coaxed by the Myanmar army to send relatives, including children, to serve the junta for less than US$5 per day
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