The issue of child soldiers in not unknown. There are thousands of children all around the world serving as soldiers in armed conflicts. These children serve in government forces as well as opposition groups. They fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, act as spies forced into sexual slavery and so on. The issue of child soldiers in Myanmar is one that has persisted for a very long time. Armed conflicts between the state and numerous ethnic groups have been rampant for

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... five decades, and children are being dragged into this war to fight. The Burmese Army is one of the largest recruiters of child soldiers along with certain opposition groups. This paper aims to explore and understand the following aspects of the Burmese child soldiers:  How the children are recruited  Tasks such employment requires them to perform, and  Condition of their lives once freed from the army.