conscription
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There was an official from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, and several young men avoiding forced conscription into the army.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
"If everyone is silent, then why would it stop? I understand the problem of conscription, but no official has the right to act like this."
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In February 2024, the military activated conscription legislation, aiming to bolster its ranks by forcibly recruiting 50,000 citizens.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Essentially, the opinion treated conscription as a natural incident of nationhood.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2026
I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The American Civil War
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World War I
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