Some are lured in by the promise of earning a meager amount of money, some are captured by the police with petty excuses and then given the Sophie’s choice to either face jail time or serve in the army. There are also reports that some children in Myanmar are even abducted and forced to enroll in the army. The captors, otherwise called recruiters are not only punished but rather rewarded for each so- called recruitment they make. With their identities forged to make them look of legal age, these child soldiers are tortured both physically and mentally into submission.
In “Men at 15: Child Soldiers of Myanmar” we hear harrowing first-hand accounts of former child soldiers who have gone through hell and back. Some are now fighting the very army that once recruited them and put them into severe abuse to coerce them into picking up arms and killing on demand.
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