GENOCIDE WATCH
By Rebecca Ratcliffe and Aung Naing Soe
Date : 11th March'2025
Potential conscripts fear they could be forced to carry out atrocities or be used as human shields by the military
Military officers on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 27 March 2023. Many in Myanmar have expressed alarm at the conscription law. Photograph: Aung Shine Oo/AP
Passport offices and embassies in Myanmar have been flooded with applications, with a queue of more than a thousand people on a single day trying to secure a visa for neighbouring Thailand. Helplines offering advice on ways to leave the country – how to manage checkpoints, what documents are needed – have been inundated.