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Nineteen-year-old Doe Doe has already had to make a series of difficult decisions in his young life. When Myanmar’s military took power in 2021, he decided to drop out of high school, feeling he was unable to continue with his education in a system controlled by the junta. He was 16 years old at the time and about to graduate. After the military recently announced that they would enforce a previously inactive conscription law, Doe Doe decided to join the People’s Defense Forces (PDF) in the central city of Mandalay, which is fighting junta forces in many parts of the country. “I didn’t tell my…

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