{"id":186,"date":"2007-10-31T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2007-11-02T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T13:55:11","slug":"child-military-recruits-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/child-military-recruits-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Child military recruits in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2007\/10\/31\/burma17178.htm\">this news<\/a> is not surprising, the Burmese government is forcibly recruiting many children, some as young as age 10, into its armed forces. The Human Rights Watch report\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/reports\/2007\/burma1007\/\">Sold to Be Soldiers: The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma<\/a> found that military recruiters and civilian brokers receive cash payments and other incentives for each new recruit, even if the recruit clearly violates minimum age or health standards.\u00a0 It is almost more surprising to learn that there is a bureaucracy of recruitment, since we know that the Myanmar government uses slave labour and we see on TV minors carrying guns in news reports from Sudan, Middle East and other hot spots.\u00a0 But the timing is opportune as international attention is on the Myanmar public demonstrations calling for democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this news is not surprising, the Burmese government is forcibly recruiting many children, some as young as age 10, into its armed forces. The Human Rights Watch report\u00a0 Sold to Be Soldiers: The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma found that military recruiters and civilian brokers receive cash payments and other incentives &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/child-military-recruits-in-myanmar\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Child military recruits in Myanmar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-30","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}