Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
BY Frontier
Mr Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Frontier following his tour of Kachin and Rakhine states.
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