More than 1,000 people lined up at the Thai embassy in Yangon on Friday as young people sought to leave Myanmar after the junta said it would impose military service.
Myanmar's ruling military plans to call up young people for mandatory service from April and also require retired security personnel to serve, media reports cited a junta spokesman as saying, as the army struggles to crush an anti-junta
Myanmar: All men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 must serve in the military for up to two years, while specialists like doctors aged up to 45 must serve for three years.