• For most of its independent years, the country has been engrossed in

rampant ethnic strife and its myriad ethnic groups have been involved in
one of the world's longest-running ongoing civil wars. During this time, the
United Nations and several other organisations have reported consistent
and systematic human rights violations in the country.[10] In 2011,
the military junta was officially dissolved following a 2010 general election,
and a nominally civilian government was installed. This, along with the
release of Aung San Suu Kyiand political prisoners, has improved the
country's human rights record and foreign relations, and has led to the
easing of trade and other economic sanctions.[11] There is, however,
continuing criticism of the government's treatment of ethnic minorities, its
response to the ethnic insurgency, and religious clashes.[12] In the
landmark 2015 election, Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a majority in both
houses. However, the Burmese military remains a powerful force in politics
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Child Soldier
• Burma has the largest number of child soldiers Human Rights Watch noted that there is no way to
in the world and the number is growing. The precisely estimate the number of children in Burma's army,
overwhelming majority of Burma’s child soldier s but it appears that the vast majority of new recruits are
are found in the national army, Tamadaw Kyi, forcibly conscripted, and there may be as many as 70,000
which forcibly recruits children as young as 11, soldiers under the age of 18.
although armed opposition groups use child
soldiers as well. These children are subject to
beatings and systematic during training.
A 2013 report in CNN
•
The International Labor stated that recruiters of
Organization convention Child Soldiers were
"Burma's army preys on children, using on the worst forms of still active and that
threats, intimidation and often violence child labor, adopted in according to analysis
to force young boys to become soldiers," 1999, also recognizes the from risk analysis
said Becker. "To be a boy in Burma today forced recruitment of company Maplecroft,
means facing the constant risk of being children under age 18 for Myanmar still ranks
picked up off the street, forced to use in armed conflict as number 8 on the global
commit atrocities against villagers, and one of the worst forms of index, where its use of
never seeing your family again." child labor. child soldiers is
considered “extreme.”