25/05/2026
🇲🇲 On 18 May, Defense Minister General Tun Aung ordered regional administrations to work with immigration offices to compile conscription lists, drawing on detailed township household records that include the birth dates and occupations of each family member and signaling a systematic expansion with roughly 13 million eligible for conscription.
Since 2024, young people have been abducted while walking home from work or forcibly taken from their homes, leaving families traumatized and communities shattered. Families are kept in the dark, forbidden from communicating, some discovering once loved ones have died in battle, others mortgaging their homes for their release.
APHR stands in solidarity with families and communities in Myanmar grappling with the junta’s violent and oppressive regime, and calls on ASEAN and the international community to take urgent, coordinated action to stop this accelerating assault on Myanmar’s young generation.
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