382 Myanmar military personnel punished for recruiting minors

22 June 2016
382 Myanmar military personnel punished for recruiting minors

Myanmar military authorities have recently punished 382 military personnel including 73 officers for recruiting child soldiers, Xinhua reported on 21 June quoting the Committee for Prevention of Minors from Military Service.
The committee disclosed that it has been cooperating with the United Nations Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) since 2012 and up until now the committee had returned 744 minors back to their families.