Running from conscription, enraged by the military and boosted by the sudden, unexpected scent of victory, Myanmar’s youth have decided they have to either flee the country or join the fight.
A conscription order by Myanmar’s weakened junta has seeded dread among the nation’s youth, with many making plans to flee or join pro-democracy fighters to avoid being drafted.
But the military is likely to ‘fight ever more brutally, the closer it comes to defeat’, analysts say, even as ‘pace of liberation quickens’ in Myanmar.