One month after Myanmar conscription was announced, young people leave for neighboring Thailand one after another. In Myanmar, the military, which has been in power since a coup d'état three years ago, announced last month that it would implement a conscription system.
Young people are rushing to the embassies of neighboring Thailand to seek long-term visas in order to avoid being drafted into the military. A university in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, held an entrance exam for its English department this month and received 2,100 applications, far exceeding the 100-person capacity.