Previously, conscripts needed to serve two years, but that's being gradually reduced so that by June 2020, conscripts will only need to serve 1 year and six months.
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In the past, conscripts needed to serve two years, but that's being gradually reduced so that by June 2020, conscripts will only need to serve 1 year and six months.
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New conscripts have been told they will serve only 18 months.
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Leaving requires an exit permit, which conscripts are almost never granted.
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That leaves judges plenty of leeway to compel conscripts to serve.
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Almost all men, having been conscripts, were familiar with small arms.
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Arab conscripts take workshops in the Kurdish language twice a week.
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The country draws most of its military personnel from teenage conscripts.
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Security sources said dozens of police officers and conscripts were killed.
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Army conscripts were deployed to clear paths for the emergency vehicles.
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Many teachers, journalists, accountants and even hotel staff are conscripts paid pitiful salaries.
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Human Rights Watch and others describe the use of conscripts as "forced labor".
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The men are selected from army conscripts based on physical appearance and abilities.
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The conscripts were told the soldier had been passing classified information to the communists.
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After all, almost half of Russia's soldiers are conscripts serving just a single year.
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The soldiers who survived, many of them conscripts, walked home in a driving rain.
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"A bunch of conscripts standing around in uniform doesn't help with cyberattacks," Dempsey said.
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The Australian antiwar movement was gathering momentum, inspired partly by casualties among young conscripts.
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Iguana conscripts his hostages in a war against his former pirate comrades who spurned him.
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The regular conscripts "are too weak" to do the job, while other troops "are mafiosi".
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Viewers of the event, which was broadcast on television, saw national-guard conscripts run away.
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Polish nobles were deprived of cheap agricultural labour, Austrian and Hungarian military officials of conscripts.
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Those roads are filled with check posts manned by nervous soldiers, many of them conscripts.
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About half of the 350,000-strong Royal Thai Armed Forces is made up of conscripts.
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BAGHDAD — On land, Syria's government is mustering thousands of conscripts to bolster its depleted forces.
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However, others who have stayed said some national service conscripts were now being better paid.
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"...so does forced domestic servitude and sexual violence by commanders against female conscripts," it adds.
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Young conscripts act as patrols and spend one year serving in the army along the frontier.
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When I asked Mohammad to elaborate, he glanced timidly at several Kurdish conscripts hovering around us.
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Recently I visited Sweden to talk with conscripts in mechanized infantry, artillery and army ranger units.
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It also described sexual humiliation where conscripts were forced by superiors to hold one another's penises.
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One was built by warriors, conscripts and criminals In China, different dynasties employed varying methods of construction.
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State television confirmed an officer and two conscripts had been killed but did not mention any wounded.
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Wilson wrote a letter in which he asked to be remembered to the conscripts in New York.
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As part of its program of compulsory military service, Finland gave conscripts mathematical, verbal and visuospatial tests.
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Eritrea's system of open-ended service forces conscripts to serve indefinitely, often for decades at a time.
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In Eritrea, they escaped a brutal dictatorship that conscripts men and women into the military for life.
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The government is said to want to release its oldest conscripts, some of whom are in their 60s.
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Israel denounced "irregular Iranian activity" in the Golan Heights, called up conscripts and opened bomb shelters for civilians.
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Many fear that lots of conscripts would give the armed forces a miss if there were any alternative.
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It was recently set up by Hadi's government to absorb new conscripts being trained to fight the Houthis.
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Israel's conscripts routinely have their phones with them at all times and often use them in their duties.
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By comparison, South Korea has 628,000 active soldiers, most of whom are also conscripts, and 4.5 million reservists.
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Soldiers were employed at the very start, but over the centuries, criminals and conscripts did much of the work.
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Their favourite recruits are said to be Cubans, who typically have military training (as conscripts in the Cuban army).
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Some conscripts serve in the army, though all are expected to head to the front if war breaks out.
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The UN has said that female conscripts are routinely raped by officers and forced to work as their servants.
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Three security sources said at the time that at least 52 police officers and conscripts were killed on Oct.
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Ownership rates have tumbled in this century, especially after the army cut the number of conscripts by four-fifths.
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Habara, 40, was sentenced to death in 2014 for killing 25 army conscripts in Northern Sinai in August 2013.
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Like most Arab conscripts, he would probably spend the next ten months performing menial duties, away from his family.
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In turn, both Russians and the foreign Shiite fighters have complained about a lack of discipline among Syrian conscripts.
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Do you think volunteers of these wars produce art that is distinguishable from the conscripts of the Vietnam War?
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And what about the national service conscripts who are actually building the dams without any choice or adequate pay?
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All male adults were forced to join; the conscripts included Perechú and other members of the current Xejuyup team.
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By this summer, new Marine Corps conscripts, for example, will be facing 18 months of service instead of 21.
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In military camps, conscripts are frequently subjected to torture, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and domestic servitude.
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The European Union said it disapproved of Eritrea's national service policy, despite the conscripts' use of European-funded tools.
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Reputable firms shun Eritrea partly because any venture is likely to involve local partners who use conscripts—ie, forced labour.
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For "Clean Thursday" (2003), he filmed teenage conscripts in Chechnya as they washed, did laundry and read letters from girlfriends.
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Conscripts are forced to live in barracks far from home, with unpredictable leave and little contact with the outside world.
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Three security sources told Reuters at the time of the attack that dozens of police officers and conscripts were killed.
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It recruited both volunteers and conscripts, extorted ordinary citizens, and plundered oil reserves and ancient artifacts to fill its coffers.
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In a camp outside Kobanî, I attended a graduation ceremony for some five hundred conscripts, who'd just completed basic training.
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More than 1.5 million French conscripts fought in the war; 23,000 died, and those who came back traumatized kept silent.
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Egypt has mandatory military service for males, and conscripts with the lowest levels of education are assigned to the police.
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One day, as the conscripts were watching a movie, he recalled, officers led a soldier to the patio and shot him.
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Human rights groups have long accused Myanmar's military of abuses such as using child soldiers, forcibly recruiting conscripts and confiscating land.
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About a dozen conscripts wander by, likely returned for the religious holiday from their postings, and enter the tent to pray.
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Many workers on the construction site are forced conscripts, and the European Union has no real means of monitoring the project.
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He said that some of the guards were young conscripts who wept when they saw their peers hauled in as prisoners.
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Fewer youngsters at home also means fewer who will need jobs once the expected demobilisation of the army and civilian conscripts begins.
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But the interior ministry denied that figure the next day and said 16 police and conscripts died, including some high-ranking officers.
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Most of the conscripts are younger than the conflict, and have seen Armenians only through a slit window in a machinegun redoubt.
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This will require converting the many jobs currently performed by conscripts — farming, construction, teaching — into formal civil-service or private-sector positions.
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Habara has been convicted in 2014 of killing 25 army conscripts in North Sinai in August 2013, near the border with Israel.
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Military service is mandatory in Israel, where bright young conscripts spend years developing equipment or software that does well in unpredictable environments.
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Egyptian soldiers and conscripts are hunkered down inside heavily protected bases, venturing out in armored convoys that barrel down long, exposed roads.
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All its members are conscripts picked for height and posture — and must demonstrate their godliness by belonging to the Orthodox Church of Greece.
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"These kids did not know anything," said Nazli Tanburaci Altac, a lawyer in Ankara, the capital, who is representing conscripts who were detained.
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Editorial Until recently, China and India have been cast as obstacles, at the very least reluctant conscripts, in the battle against climate change.
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Recently, however, the government has indicated that the National Service could be incrementally reduced once enough jobs open up to absorb the conscripts.
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The war, he said, "sucked the whole country into a violent nightmare" as soldiers, mostly ill-trained conscripts, were thrown into the caldron.
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General Stilwell openly referred to Chiang as "Peanut" and railed against his corruption, complaining that it left conscripts starving in the streets of Chongqing.
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Witnesses said the suicide bomber entered the compound behind a truck that had brought breakfast for the conscripts, who had queued for the meal.
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This may be why, as Ms Cohen found, conscripts, who may have been abducted or press-ganged, are more likely to rape than volunteers.
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A total of 10 conscripts were wounded in the attack on the outskirts of el-Arish, Sinai&aposs largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
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The cadre of hard-core members inspired purely by devotion to a jihadist vision is being reinforced by child soldiers, forced conscripts and criminals.
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There is a dire shortage of food and water, and ISIS increasingly conscripts civilians to serve as human shields, executing those who don't comply.
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The movies have been conscripts in this continuing culture war and to look back at 1968 is to understand what has and hasn't changed.
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The conscripts are often sent to remote areas away from home, where they are subjected to brutal hazing and bullying by more senior soldiers.
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Days after the coup, he recounted, a lieutenant in his regiment, Aníbal Barrera, picked a group of conscripts to be part of a firing squad.
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Prior to that, the military was a mix of volunteers and conscripts, which created challenges within the ranks, but even more in the broader society.
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A helicopter carrying conscripts with a single officer landed at the station but was told it was impossible to take the signal off the air.
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The researchers used data on more than one million 18-year-old military conscripts in Sweden between 33 and 1997, without a history of diabetes.
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Berhe was part of an exodus from Eritrea, a brutal dictatorship that engages in torture and forcibly conscripts young men like Berhe into the military.
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To that end, Lithuania has expanded its three main brigades — a motorized brigade, mechanized brigade and a light infantry brigade — that they've augmented with conscripts.
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It's a tradition that seeks to salve wounds lingering from the Vietnam War, when fierce social divides saw many conscripts spurned when they came home.
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Ranger conscripts in mountain warfare training must all carry the same weight, and ski and climb the same distances in the same amount of time.
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Like a Navy SEAL thrown into a pool of raw conscripts, at 6, I had spent much of my conscious life training for this moment.
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The Associated Press, citing security officials, said the dead included 34 conscripts as well as two police brigadier generals, a colonel and 10 lieutenant colonels.
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They are fed well and shown off to would-be conscripts to demonstrate how they will receive better treatment if they follow Boko Haram's orders.
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There is almost no private sector and construction is carried out only by companies that belong to the ruling party and that are staffed by conscripts.
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This week a new 70,000-strong National Guard, mainly of former army conscripts, began to deploy to 150 of the most violent localities across the country.
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Mr Dhlakama had once before laid down his guns, ending a civil war marked by mass atrocities, child conscripts and 1m deaths between 1977 and 1992.
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Before the war, service would last for two years but now many conscripts say they have served for several years, with no sign of being discharged.
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The conscripts will serve for 9-12 months, after which they will be encouraged to join either the armed services full time, or the army reserves.
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When our history books or patriotic songs talk about "The Martyrs of '67," the listener is almost sure that they are military officers, or maybe conscripts.
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Some Russian media have quoted Shamsutdinov as saying that he had been threatened with rape and that officers were beating up conscripts and taking their money.
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The European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, said that it had "been informed" by the government that conscripts would be used for its road project.
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Some Russian media have quoted Shamsutdinov as saying that he had been threatened with rape and that officers were beating up conscripts and taking their money.
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This clause has been upheld as constitutional by South Korean courts in the past, but is currently being challenged again in two ongoing cases by former conscripts.
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In 20 years, Mr Putin has turned Russia's armed forces from an ill-managed bunch of poorly equipped conscripts into a well-armed, largely professional fighting force.
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Unlike the Swedish system, in which conscripts serve for nine to 12 months, the French version, said Mr Macron, would now last from three to six months.
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Although he sympathized with the conscripts on the Ukrainian government side, he also argued that Ukrainian forces had killed civilians and hired "mercenaries" from Poland and Chechnya.
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Of the soldiers, 75 percent are volunteers, and although Kiev is having trouble making up the numbers of conscripts, nonetheless that provides a central core of veterans.
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Military conscripts should not be to subjected to forced labor in mining or construction "while receiving no or very little salary" during indefinite national service, it said.
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Thus Kirk conscripts the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, a liberal Whig, into his conservative army, only because Macaulay wrote a rather atypical debunking of Bentham in his youth.
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A security source said the attack targeted a school compound where conscripts of the Popular Committees, forces allied to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were gathered for breakfast.
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Russian conscripts posted in remote locations have in the past attacked other servicemen, often in response to brutal hazing, which is particularly severe against soldiers from ethnic minorities.
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Parents, siblings and friends of would-be conscripts have a vested interest in the knowledge that their son, friend, sister or brother could be put in harm's way.
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Soon enough, shooting erupted all around, with bullets fired from the pro-Russian line smacking into the abandoned country houses where the Ukrainian conscripts sleep during the day.
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The report outlined other abuses including incidents where commanders forced conscripts to jump into septic tanks or to eat "like dogs", using their mouths and not their hands.
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But the Thai military hierarchy remains a system in which senior officers often take advantage of the lower ranks and conscripts are known to act as their servants.
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In the event of an invasion, the plan is for many of their troops - mostly conscripts - to withdraw into forests and mount hit-and-run attacks against Russian troops.
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The Military Criminal Act bans soldiers, most of whom are conscripts, from engaging in gay sex, which it labels "disgraceful conduct", punishable by imprisonment of up to two years.
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The official said 10 of those injured were members of regular forces, including three conscripts of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Hemedti, who were injured by gunfire.
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The message is clear to everyone from Gulf monarchs to illiterate conscripts in the Iranian army, and marks a clear improvement in two big elements of Middle East policy.
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This coalition of support is championed by minority parents, who are frustrated by a system that conscripts children to a school based on geographic proximity, regardless of its quality.
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But business people say they cannot offer the same prices as the military, which is exempt from tax and uses conscripts as free labor in its factories and farms.
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The government hopes that the nine- to 12-month stints for the chosen conscripts will lead them to join the reserves or become full-time members of the Swedish military.
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Many young Syrian men are deserting like Nasser or dodging the draft altogether to avoid the experiences that have left conscripts physically and mentally scarred and with an uncertain future.
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In recent days, Ms. King has been assembling a volunteer corps, and one of her conscripts is Dr. Scott Adelman, a second-home owner who is a recently retired cardiologist.
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After the Emperor of China (Jet Li) conscripts one man from each family to face Bori Khan's (Jason Scott Lee) invading Hun army, Mulan secretly takes her ailing father's place.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai military conscripts face widespread violence and sexual assaults, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday, calling the abuse institutionalized and systematically hushed up by the hierarchy.
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But when pro-opposition protesters approached the base again on May 1st they were dispersed by a rain of teargas canisters the moment they began aiming stones at the conscripts inside.
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When protesters approached La Carlota, an air base in eastern Caracas, they were dispersed by a rain of tear-gas canisters the moment they began aiming stones at the conscripts inside.
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Around a sixth of the people experiencing such mistreatment today are forced to work by the state, primarily in prisons or the army (including conscripts made to do non-military tasks).
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EL-ARISH, Egypt – Security and hospital officials say an attack targeting a police vehicle by suspected militants in the turbulent northern part of Egypt&aposs Sinai Peninsula has killed two conscripts.
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Earlier this year a video clip that appeared to show two military men having sex circulated on social media, sparking what seems to be a military witch hunt for gay conscripts.
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Mirai is a type of malware that automatically finds Internet of Things devices to infect and conscripts them into a botnet—a group of computing devices that can be centrally controlled.
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But the larger Russian army is half manned by conscripts, and even Russians convinced Kiev is in the wrong don't want to see sons and brothers coming home in body bags.
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Meanwhile, images on social media of conscripts' being slapped and taunted have shocked a country that venerates the common soldier, as have allegations by Amnesty International that military detainees have been tortured.
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The rooftop scene in which conscripts have just seconds to toss radioactive debris to the ground is as otherworldly as it must have seemed to those who were there three decades ago.
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On Saturday, a ministry statement said 16 police and conscripts were killed and another 13 wounded in a remote western desert area after they came under heavy fire from the armed group.
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Civil defense (preparation of the civilian population for North Korean urban strikes), improved pay for conscripts, more intelligence, homegrown missile defense and stronger cyberdefense would help make up for Seoul's military vulnerabilities.
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They said they were conscripts in the country's national service system when they worked at Bisha, working not for Nevsun directly but for government-owned construction firms subcontracted to build the mine.
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That year, officials committed to replacing 70% of military equipment by 2020 and reforming personnel structures still heavily dependent on conscripts and in which many Cold War-era units were catastrophically understrength.
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They were related to the Yine, but separated by history: the Yine were the descendants of Fitzcarrald's conscripts, and the Mashco were believed to be the descendants of those who had fled.
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Clues pointed to the role of sweets: Orphans in childrens' homes too poor to provide sweets had fewer cavities than the general population; dental decay among conscripts declined during sugar rationing in WWI.
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They'll be chosen from a group of 13,000 young people born in 1999, consisting of both volunteers and conscripts, who will undergo military tests to determine which ones are most motivated and committed.
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But from the inside, and for women especially, the house often seems to own you: It dwarfs you, envelops you, conscripts you to a Sisyphean cycle of mortgage payments and repairs and housekeeping.
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"They want us to leave the country," said Michael, who left his homeland rather than serve in an army accused by human rights groups of treating conscripts brutally and forcing them to serve indefinitely.
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The wages for professional soldiers run well below the national average for the age group, providing little monetary incentive, while the pool of potential recruits, primarily former conscripts from before 2010, has steadily shrunk.
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He conscripts Tony Jaa into this totally realistic gang by kidnapping his pet elephant and searing "01" into Jaa's flesh to denote the fact that Tony Jaa is the best fighter in his gang.
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The phone belongs to Mr. Robot deuteragonist Darlene, who first chews you out for stealing it and then conscripts you into her hacker collective, while other characters unwittingly send you messages meant for her.
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In 2017, dozens of men were arrested in what was described as a "gay witch-hunt," with superiors using gay dating apps and inspections of soldiers' phones and social media to track down LGBT conscripts.
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Three security sources said at the time that at least 52 police officers and conscripts were killed but the interior ministry refuted that figure the next day and said only 16 policemen had been killed.
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It is that there is always something interior and fetishistic, something intimate and slightly creepy, about the way Mr. Browne approaches the human body and conscripts you as an accomplice to his point of view.
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In 288, the Egyptian army waged a bloody crackdown on mutinying paramilitary conscripts, and an estimated 30,000 people were thrown in jail when jihadists carried out a string of attacks on tourists in the 1990s.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have accused Reuters and the BBC of "inaccurate coverage" of clashes in the western desert between security forces and armed militants in which police officers and conscripts were killed on Friday.
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Her use of Vulcan strategy starts a war; she's pulled from her mutiny sentence by Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), who conscripts her to the Discovery; she spends the season's last third navigating the mirror universe.
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Over the past decade, hundreds of former conscripts have organized around the country, and they are now suing the state for compensation for the moral and psychological damage done to them during their mandatory military service.
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"Support the jihadis and report the information of apostates around you be they soldiers, agents, conscripts, policemen, officers, bank managers, Christian leaders, atheists, crusaders or Zionists who live among you," Islamic State urged its supporters online.
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A Human Rights Watch report from 2017 stated that "physical abuse, including torture" occurs frequently for people taking part in national service, and "so does forced domestic servitude and sexual violence by commanders against female conscripts."
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In March, the State Department reported that the Islamic State is increasing its dependence on a cadre of juvenile conscripts, some as young as ten years old, who are known as the Cubs of the Caliphate.
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In another incident on Saturday morning, nine policemen were injured when an explosive device planted on the road was remotely detonated as the armoured vehicle carrying the conscripts passed in the city of Rafah, security sources said.
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The details of how this project is set up show that it has been carefully designed to ensure that the European Union is not seen to be directly paying for conscripts to work on the construction site.
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Three security sources said at least 52 police officers and conscripts had been killed in gun battles that erupted in the remote desert, but Egyptian authorities said only 16 men had died when their patrol came under attack.
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It features interviews with Egyptian soldiers detailing what they say are the inhumane conditions that conscripts are forced to work under, and it accuses the army of failing to train its troops properly and feeding them bad food.
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They include people made by their state authorities to participate in agriculture or construction work to boost economic development, young military conscripts forced to perform non-military work, and prisoners forced to work without consent at private prisons.
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Cruz's daughters are both under 10 years old, and we can all agree that it would be bad for our nation's security to switch from our current all-volunteer military to one composed of elementary-school-age conscripts.
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Abel Haile, a 255-year-old who fled this month to Ethiopia, told Reuters when he was drafted into the army in 230 an army general told conscripts they would be in the military for just one year.
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Three gunmen on a motorbike attacked police in al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo, killing two officers and three conscripts in the latest attack on Egyptian security forces battling an Islamist insurgency.
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Many who were posted here as conscripts — all men in South Korea are required to serve about two years in the military — say they never want to see it again, so rugged are its hills and cold its winters.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian conscript who shot dead eight fellow soldiers at his army base last year said on Thursday he had been left with no other course of action after conscripts turned his life into a living "hell".
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As in the failed Soviet coup, the Turkish coup leaders were dependent on raw conscripts who had either not been told the truth about their mission, or had not expected to face popular resistance and quickly melted away or surrendered.
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Once launched, the new command will work alongside both the cyber branch of Estonia's Defence League, composed entirely of volunteers, and conscripts and reservists in the Estonian military who specialize in cyber to take on a full range of cyber operations.
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Many of Badme's 15,20003 people are veterans of a 1998-2000 conflict that drew comparisons to the First World War, with waves of conscripts forced to march through minefields toward Eritrean trenches, where they were cut down by machinegun fire.
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Reluctant to put Russian soldiers, many of them conscripts, in the line of fire in Syria, Russia has increasingly relied on mercenaries, scores of whom were killed by U.S. forces in February 2018, before President Trump ordered American troops out.
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The case is embarrassing for the military, which has been revamped in recent years at great cost, projects an image of might and says it has stamped out the Soviet-era problem of hazing - the bullying of conscripts by older soldiers.
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The case is embarrassing for the military, which has been revamped in recent years at great cost, projects an image of might and says it has stamped out the Soviet-era problem of hazing — the bullying of conscripts by older soldiers.
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Using thousands of indigenous conscripts to hack through the jungle, he found that the headwaters were just six miles apart, on either side of a fifteen-hundred-foot peak, and he conceived a railroad that would unite the two river systems.
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An untold number of people are still being held by Boko Haram, a group that routinely kills boys and men for refusing to join, conscripts others into its fighting force and turns women and girls into sex slaves and suicide bombers.
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Some asserted that integrating female conscripts would have a significant impact on military readiness "due in large part to natural physical differences between men and women that have practical consequences for the lethality of gender-integrated fighting units," according to the report.
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Here, Henze's oratorio about the shipwrecked conscripts of the frigate Medusa in 1816 — you probably know the classic Géricault painting — was connected to contemporary political concerns by a film of Mr. Castellucci's, projected on a scrim at the front of the stage.
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CAIRO/ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament on Tuesday approved an extension of a nationwide state of emergency until the end of September as a police officer and two conscripts were killed by a roadside bomb in the Sinai where Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency.
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Despite a military directive passed in 213 calling for greater protections for gay soldiers, LGBT conscripts still face suspicion, harassment and prosecution under Article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act, which makes sexual activity between men punishable by up to two years in prison.
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As many as 85 percent of those reaching Uganda recount horrific tales of seeing armed groups burning villagers alive in their houses, shooting people in front of their families, raping women and girls, and seizing boys to serve as conscripts, the United Nations reported.
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ADEN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed seven police conscripts and wounded 15 others on Sunday when he drove a vehicle laden with explosives into a police compound in the hometown of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the south-eastern Abyan province, a local official said.
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Estimates put the size of the bomb at a hefty 350kg, enough to leave nothing except tangled undercarriages of the SUV carrying the device and its objective, a bus that was part of a lumbering 78-vehicle military convoy ferrying some 2,500 conscripts from the Central Reserve Police Force.
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Jake is just an everyday guy, a "generic" Gun for Hire, a class of character who sits between the nameless conscripts of FC4 and the FC5's plane-flying, flame-wielding action heroes (who are themselves a little bit like Hollywood versions of Far Cry 2's "buddies").
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While Shiv seems to lose throughout the episode, she is actually making remarkable headway against Rhea: She seeds Marcia's distrust, conscripts her more skeptical, Jarrell-friendly brothers into a just-for-fun "dead aunt"-themed prank, and highlights to Logan that his no-fun new girlfriend doesn't drink.
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Credit...Patrick Chauvel MOSCOW — It began not so much as an invasion, but as a slouching stumble through mud and snow by frightened, ill-fed Russian conscripts, the hollowed-out remnants of a force that, before the collapse of the Soviet Union just three years earlier, had been the mighty Red Army.
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According to Fallon, most of the interrogators were "basically conscripts" who would "walk into a room for the first time thinking the detainee was just waiting to be cracked open and they were the next Jack Bauer," the fictional protagonist of "24," who used abusive tactics to elicit information and save his city from terrorist attacks.
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The brainchild of Scott Sternberg, a onetime Hollywood agent with no design training but a genius for marketing, Band was a spunky American innovation story: Man narrows ties (Band helped spur the skinny-tie boom), man shrinks shirts (Band's sizes were famously miniature, a fact celebrated by some and lamented by others), man conscripts hip celebrity friends to help promote it (Michelle Williams, Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst), man sweeps the industry. (Mr.
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And yet, there's something subtly satisfying, something that feels necessary, in the urgent call for a mass mobilization against a novel communicable disease that could kill more Americans in the next year than the Axis powers killed in World War II. Those of us taking responsible measures—canceling engagements, homeschooling children, self-isolation, fearing for the health and well-being of everyone we know and everyone we don't—are already acting as conscripts in a mass battle of patience and attrition.
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