The military council’s administrators have begun to collect information on women eligible for compulsory military service in Tanintharyi and Bago regions, according to local civilians.
A resident of Myeik, Tanintharyi Region claimed junta-appointed administrators were drawing up lists of local women during their nightly “guest registration checks” in Myeik and Kawthaung townships.
“They are only collecting names, but young people have already fled their home villages and towns,” the Myeik resident said, also noting that a large portion of Myeik’s population has already fled to Thailand.
A villager in Yedashe Township, Bago Region with connections to the local junta administration said that township-level officials had ordered them to list the names of women eligible for conscription after the eligible men in his. . .
