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Human Rights Watch estimates 30 countries include 300,000 children under the age of 18 currently participating in armed battles.

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"International law prohibits government forces or armed groups from recruiting children under the age of fifteen" and is recognized as a war crime by the International Criminal Court.

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"To be a boy in Burma today means facing the constant risk of being picked up off the street, forced to commit atrocities against villagers, and never seeing your family again."

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" Human Rights Watch interviewed two boys, ages 13 and 15 at the time, who belonged to units that massacred a group of 15 women and children in Shan State in early 2001."

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The child soldiers are forced to commit unlawful acts against civillians, including  burning villages, gathering villagers for forced labor, and carrying out executions along with already being deployed to fight against opposition groups.

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Captured boys are not allowed to contact their parents, are sent to weapons training camps, and habitually beaten.

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Recruiters for the army threaten young boys at trains and bus stations, telling them they will go to jail if they do not join.

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"Burma's army has doubled in size since 1988, and with an estimated 350,000 soldiers is now one of the largest armies in Southeast Asia."

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Former soldiers claim that 20 percent or more of Burma's on duty soldiers are most likely children under 18

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"Burma has a poor human rights record, but its record on child soldiers is the worst in the world," said Jo Becker, advocacy director of the Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

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Burma has the largest and still increasing number of child soldiers, as young as 11 and commonly found in the national army

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