In April mandatory army conscription will come into effect in Myanmar | DW News
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- Myanmar's junta has started drafting civilians to fight in its military, as it tries to squash persistent efforts by pro-democracy and armed ethnic resistance groups to overthrow it. The military took power in a coup in 20-21 and imprisoned the country’s former democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Conflict has been brewing since, and the resistance movement has been gaining momentum. The junta is set to enforce a law that dictates all men between 18 and 35, and all women between 18 and 27 must serve at least two years in the armed forces. The law will come into effect in April - and it's pushing thousands to flee the country. Many of them are heading to neighboring Thailand but they're not necessarily safe there either.
DW's Asia Pacific bureau chief Georg Matthes met a group of men now living in a safe house in the Thai city of Mae Sot.
3:59 DW spoke to Dr. Anna Plunkett - a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of War Studies at King's College London
8:19 and exiled Burmese journalist Sein Win
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This will probably just encourage more people to fight against the Junta. If you have to fight you might as well fight for freedom
That's exactly what has been happening.
Praying for my friends and their families in Yangon.
convince them to leave as early as now...
Could really backfire. Forcing citizens to pick a side they might not like the results of their choice.
I suspect they might only conscript Burmans.
@@RUHappyATMnope. Just like how you see Asians fighting on the Russian sides. You’ll see ethnic groups being drafted in Burma
Giving weapons to your adversaries. What could possibly go wrong?
spoken like a privileged first world citizen lmao. the govt has the info on their families. the moment they desert, their families are gonna be made to regret giving birth to them.
Western is destroying the peace and bringing the war in Asia.
Mutiny? What's that? There's no mutinies in our cult.
No, they will just use the newly conscript as human shield like what stopping these guy to use them as human shield
Good point, @@minthukq3235 .
Oh gee, that'll make the Junta popular with the locals!
Leaders are so coward. How could you cause trouble and make poor people pay for it by force? If you think you want to fight another countryor your enermy, go there alone and leave the poor citizens that just want to leave a peaceful life. Always they will sit inside of their offices and be commanding conflicts on poor people
Western is destroying the peace in Asia.
A population has the leaders it deserves.
They been doing that for ever in history. Just look at WW1, it only started due to family dispute from Monarchs throughout Europe then war expanded into fighting for land and power over Europe. All of them were Queen Victoria grandchildren.
@@BiG-JuPO1O1Myanmar war is the legacy of British colony. European and British converted segment of population to Christianity. Make them fight between each other. That's how British replaced settlers colonies in Australia, Africa and North America.
Not like that, We ethnic people had always lived seperatedly with Burmese, only after Burmese manipulated ethnic peole and forcfullly controled them, they had to live with Burmese with not much choice.@@BM-zd3vs
It's a disaster here in Myanmar. The economy collapsed, the inflation is higher and worst than it has ever been. People lost their sense of security because people could get killed anytime anywhere.
Thank you for reporting what's happening in Myanmar.
This is definitely gonna backfire. Those forced conscripts will provide inside info to the rebels or they will just join the rebels directly
Y'all need to hide their faces WAY better.
If anything, they'll just recruit people who hate them, allowing some brave and intelligent souls to sabotage from within.
It's time to End of Dictatorship in Myanmar.
Looks a bit shady that Junta trying to recruit so many young women
Where do you get this information from? There was not a single mention about drafting women in this segment. Only about restricting movement of fighting eligibile mens.
@@universeslapmaybe from the picture they chose to represent this video with???
@@mclurr3197 on the DW click-bait I can see 3 women, is it many for a whole country? They clearly chose that picture to create trafic on this video
They are trying to draft women too. That's why both men and women are fleeing to other countries.
@@totallynotraccoon it may be true, but I haven't got this information from this Dw segment. That's why I'm asking...
Never forget Kyal Sin. 😇
And everywhere else too
Rebels be like: Yay!! More recruits!!
As a general rule, it is civilians who get drafted.
So rich in resources but treats its citizens very poorly. God Bless the downtrodden.
It's because the west imposed sanctions for so long and Myanmar had to rely on China and some Western countries who exploited Myanmar resources cheaply.
@@BM-zd3vs Yeah sanctions are one of the big reason why this country is broke people need to understand it
I visited Myanmar during the 2013 Sea Games as a taekwondo athlete representing Indonesia. I saw for myself the beauty of Myanmar and the friendliness of the people there. It is very sad to know that the Myanmar people are currently being oppressed and colonized by the cruel military
As of Now...Myanmar Youths are (in the midst of Military Drafting Law)...and they should be able to tackle this with...
“CRITICAL THINKING”...
Asking oneself...WHOSE WAR IS IT, ANYWAY?
1. Is it to defend the Nation /Myanmar... against foreign invasion..(Y/N)..(Ans: No)
2. Is it to get involve in the ongoing Civil War..(Y/N)..(Ans: Yes)
3. Is it morally Right to fight our own brethren..(Y/N)..(Ans: No)
By asking oneself these Q&A (Y/N)...you might be able to identify...
WHERE DO YOU STAND?
Then identify...WHAT OPTION IS LEFT FOR YOU?
Only One Option left for you...
DENY IT...AND...LEAVE....
Being forced to fight fot the wrong side, voluntarily joining the right side, or leave the country. I'd definitely choose the 2nd option.
Geez, this seems like a popular idea.
Glory to the revolution 🙏
GLORY Hallelujah!! 🎉🎉🎉
Unauthorized COUP NO MEN MILITARY DROWNING FALLING FAILURE & MORE on its WAY ASAP!! HELP Myanmar myanmar 😢😢😢
Its about time out media reports about the Myanmar war! Its going on since a long time and most in the west dont even know
' there were 44,213 firearm-related casualties in 2022. The US government has to replace those citizens and children with around 55,000 legal immigrants who weren't raised with the US' ideology and education, through Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery program each year ' - Homeland Security
In this instance I can’t help but think that the draft is intended to serve as a mechanism for political indoctrination for the Junta and a way to neutralize political opposition among the young who are the most vocal.
If you’re being forced to fight against your will you might as well fight for the anti junta forces no? This might backfire hard.
this will only cause flat rejection outright by the populace they still govern. also a dissolution of their overall fighting performance. the death pendulum is swinging.
Most underrated conflict, in these recent years
I heard these stories before, more than 30 years ago when a now good friend of mine, and his 2 brothers moved in next door with their uncle. They were fleeing Nicaragua and the draft. They were grabbing boys as young as 12 off the street and putting them in the military.
Damn the repetition of the history .
Come to shan state. .
for real?
Is DW against mandatory/forced conscription?
In 2020, 116 police officers died by suicide while 113 died in the line of duty (Stanton, 2022)
God save Myanmar
6 Sept 2023 - In 2021, research found that 30,177 American active duty personnel and veterans who served in the military after 9/11 have died by suicide
Junta no kill Junta!
The world is becoming more and more dangerous
I m Myanmar !!
How about the rest Over 50 million people ?
Exile is Exile !!
Nice decision, more people just join the resistant forces instead of the junta.
They need to join the rebels army to fight the Government army
fight with bare hands?
@@paullane7262 Rebels have everything except aircrafts. They also have manpads, snipers, jungle and mountains.
where's the US in all this?
They don't care. Burma has no oil.
@@gosnooky Some people still blame US for this. It's US fault.
@@johndo100 How, exactly? Please cite your sources.
@@gosnooky Source for what? You can see on this video, there are comments blame US for what is going on in Burma.
@@gosnooky Why should they care if it doesn't benefit their own peoples?!
Why on earth would you send your own troops to die for the freedom of others if it in no way impacts you?!
People need to learn to fight for their own freedoms!
Myanmar is getting stronger.
The myanmar rebels are a symbol of hope for the gen z generation. If they can win a war then what can we do over here with all the resources we need?
Sounds like press ganging, no thanks!
The speaker has a tendency to speed up. My friend said "is that English?"
DW news.had after coup message only before coup message should learned.
It's like you killing yourself.
South Korean mandatory military service is good
No lol, South Korean with enough money all escape to US to dodge draft. So many Koreans in US highs schools😂
South Korean can vote to disband the conscription. But they didn't. They know how necessary it is, regardless how they didn't like it.
Malaysia noted..🇲🇾
people
The world is preparing.
Why not you cover their faces fully?
It is obvious
Bamar are 32% of the population. The ethnic groups are 68% of the population.
Ethnic groups not united.
Imagine you have over 100 ethnic groups and over 60 having their own armed forces and different cultures.
@@paullane7262 There are really only 8 major ethnic groups including the Burmese.
The same is coming to Germany and other European countries.
UK is recruiting and exploiting naive Nepalese people because its country men don't want to join military.
Conscription is voted democratically in western country. It's matter of their population wish. Ironically it's more central and eastern country (like sweden, swiss, finland, estonia, poland) who eager for conscription, conpare to say germany and Spain. It's like they are closer to country who openly being expansionist.
Isnt this in a way a religious war 🤔
Not necessarily. The minority tend to be more oppressed, but so does bamar communist.
People of Nepali descent should return to Nepal.
It's okay for DW the force conscription in Ukraine but not in Myanmar. DW should have this kind of reporting in Ukraine.
Ukraine is defending their home
Ukraine is fighting for its freedom from an invader. The military junta in Myanmar is an authoritarian dictatorship that is forcing civilians to fight against the rebels who are trying to return democracy to their country.
@@blazer9547 whatever the reason, kidnapping people and forcing them to fight (even the mentality incapable) is just as wrong as what Myanmar is doing.
@@shatparkUkraine vote for it. Myanmar did not.
The western world doesn’t seem to realize that once the China secure the BRI project in Myanmar, they don’t have to rely on Malacca strait, then they will take over Thaiwan. If they ignore Myanmar issues, they can say goodbye to Thaiwan’s semi conductor factories.
A rail link can never trump shipment by sea!
Expected annual oil transport through the BRI project is around 10 million tons of crude oil.
Currently China imports around 500 million tons annually through the Malacca Straits!
The will still have to rely on the Malacca Straits!
@@kamma44 This is an example of people not understanding the situation. They are building a port and pipelines. It’s not a planned project, it’s almost finished. Imagine people in power not knowing the type of information and getting the wrong conclusions. This is just one, there are additional port at Dewi and dam project in Kachin. Myanmar is key for China’s energy security projects.
Pathetic.
The fact that junta still in power means their majority people still on the support of them.
maybe they had no choice as their livelihoods are being threatened and over 60 years of brainwashing and Covid?
I hate this country.
🫂 I pray it gets better
Me too I hate my country. 😂😂😂
Military government in Myanmar must ally with the USA like it was with Chile, Argentina South Korea etc in the past ...then everything will be fine with the western press
Sour. And too late. China already there with India jealously watching.
Myanmar has bad neighbors.
US has communist/socialist phobia plus the oil route maybe too far for them.
yeh.. we don't have much oil here. Only jade ,ruby and gold, most of which are already taken by china. And the military gov has a great relation with chinese gov.
With all those inflations and lack of safety, most of burmese young people doesn't have much choice. Some who have enough money to flee, had already fled. The ones who were left are mostly the ones who can't afford the cost to flee. I'm not sure who's gonna win this fight but surely, the sacrifice would be a great cost.
Rather than supporting the military, we will redirect these funds to support and strengthen civil society. USAID will continue its support to the people of Burma with approximately $69 million in bilateral programs.
Sounds like ukraine to me
How so?
@@JTMaster people there hide from junta to not to be drafted as well
@@evanbell8012 Ukraine isn't led by a military authoritarian government. That's what a Junta is. All their politicians were Democratically elected in elections that people voted in.
@@JTMaster they canceled the election, they're not democratically elected anymore.
@@JTMaster Lots of Draft dodgers.
number of gun-related deaths in the U.S. over the last 6 years (Pew Research Center)
39,740 in 2018 39,707 in 2019 45,222 in 2020 48,830 in 2021 40,125 in 2022 42,888 in 2023
british should have never left
like they had a choice
I think women should be drafted too when they claim gender equality. They owe duties to protect their land
0:30 Forces all men between 18-35 and women between 18-27 to serve atleast two years in the armed forces
@@zoviqi2388 yeah i hope so
it's called true equality and fairness, and nobody should force only men to do something
@@3-yg8zx It is so. And it shouldn't be forced for anyone. But this is a bad tyranny military coup. True equality is voulenteer only for everyone regardless of gender like in many progressive countries (Most are in Europe).
united states is suffering a dozen times worst that Myanmar
The karmic justice of the bamar people supporting Rohingya g no cide now being forced into being in the same situation.
It's show that you don't have knowledge on myanmar civil war. It goes back over 7 decades and atrocities are so common
Tell the truth...ask USA take their hands off...this country. Like always...
The BoogeyMan.... Oooohhhh....
I actually think in this case, it's more of a china thing
@@IK_MK exactly. This is a China thing.
i actually think in this case it's 100% a china thing, china funds the junta to protect its oil pipeline and its plunder of minerals and gems
We have nothing to do with this. Turns out, people don't like it when a military dictatorship rules like a military dictatorship. Who would have thought. 🤪
the neighboring countries and superpowers should all come together and stop this military junta
this is absolutely return which has been occurred befor 3 years ago with ruhinga.....
One can see the draft dodgers face clearly
There are 7 million Myanmar people in Thailand.
Stop your lies!
@@kamma44 you know nothing
😢😢😢
Georg Matthes on Thailand
And taste the thailang girl
They are so yummy