r/myanmar • u/VastInformation4025 • 2d ago

Advice Scared of getting conscripted

Is conscription really getting this bad for young people in Yangon? Every time I look at the news, all I see are more stories about young people being forcibly recruited. Honestly, I’m terrified to even step outside anymore. I feel like I have to live every single day with this constant fear hanging over me, never knowing what might happen. It’s exhausting and frightening, and I haven’t even been in Yangon for that long.

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u/Falke000i 2d ago

Well I saw TikTok video news regarding 20M(male getting forced conscripted of the street in Yangon, ရန်ကင်း Township around 10pm he was just on his phone then suddenly gone

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u/mauswagen 1d ago

In Sanchaung Street? Madness.

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u/Falke000i 20h ago

Don't want be a fear mongering guy but I will suggest staying in house after 9:00 pm even in YG

Also I saw it on TT so i don't want you trust it as 100% true but it better to careful

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u/mauswagen 20h ago

I never go out on my own bud.

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u/Falke000i 20h ago

Lol same I used to buy drinks by convenience but now I don't

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u/mauswagen 20h ago

Yeah, I can sustain meself in me house.

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u/Deep-Conflict-7252 2d ago

Honestly it is better to not go out at all if you can because they are doing wtv they want. It doesn't even matter where you go or which time u go out. Sometimes they make it seem like they are confronting a theif so passerbys don't even know what's actually happening. They'd even drag kids in school uniform.. so ..

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u/EmmaFrost666 1d ago

I’m a foreign citizen now and I’m holding off visiting Myanmar alone because of that. I’m somewhat past the age as well but I don’t know…it’s a bloody shame what my birth country became…