(Irrawaddy) – In a recent series of addresses to servicemen, Burma’s Minister for Defense Lt-Gen Hla Min reiterated time and again that the country’s armed forces or Tatmadaw was made up of volunteers and that suggestions by foreign media that the army recruited children and underage soldiers was “fabricated and exaggerated.”
Burma: We Have No Child Soldiers – But Ethnics Do
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