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"The best guess is that there are around 320,000 military personal with 50,000 reservists, according to defense and security analysis from Jane's."

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Recruiters are paid about "$30 to $50 (roughly 30,000 to 50,000 Burmese Kyat) and perhaps a can of kerosene for each captured child.

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The Joint Action Plan with the US also promised to immediately stop underage recruitment, strengthen investigating procedures, take action against perpetrators, and allow U.N. workers unlimited access to search for children in prisons, military bases, and any other areas they wish.

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In June 2012,  the Burmese government signed a Joint Action Plan with the United States, which allowed  Myanmar's army 18 months to take "measurable steps" to discharge and rehabilitate children serving in the Border Guard Forces and Tatmadaw.

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Soe Paing reports that after his son's servitude of 3 and a half years in the army, he is completely different and "Some of his attitudes and behaviors are very rude."

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Soe Paing contacted officials from a group called the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, who work to free child soldiers, and after much persuasion, his son was freed 18 months later.

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In a fight to find his son, Soe Paing holds a photo of his son, Zaw Zaw Lin, who is only 13 years old, wearing a Burmese military uniform and holding a gun, along with 5 other boys.

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Since the U.N. pact signed by the Myanmar government in June 2012 to rid its forces of children, 176 children have been freed from this child slavery.

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Zaw Min Paing was "20 years old and would have finished school if not for the army recruiters who one day lured him away from his home with the promise of a way to earn money to support his struggling parents."