Conscription

In the first of his articles covering the conscription crisis of 1918, Ryle Dwyer explained how heavy-handed British politicians looked towards Ireland to solve their army's manpower crisis during a vital stage of the war on the Western Front. Today, in part two of the series, he looks at how opposition by the ...

Some UAH 61.6 million (US$2.34 million) in spending on the conscription campaign will be given to the commissions by April 6," Artemenko said. As was reported, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on February 15 signed a decree to dismiss the then conscripts and schedule new military drafts in 2018.

When Lloyd George introduced a law to bring in conscription here, nationalist Ireland began to prepare to resist — and the Catholic Church was particularly well placed to disseminate resistance and organise rallies with hardly any notice via Sunday Masses.No 34 is long gone, that stretch of the street now ...

Aung Ko Htwe's interview with the news outlet focused on his recounting of forced conscription into the Burma Army as a minor. He was given the maximum sentence allowable under 505(b). The defendant was arrested on 18 August, about one week after his interview was published by Radio Free Asia.

Despite Thailand not being at war, another batch of young Thai men will be drafted early next month to serve in the military against their will. This costly and unnecessary annual military conscription, which has existed by default for decades, needs a rethink. Many countries have abolished it. Thailand has ...

The Estonian government at its Thursday meeting is to discuss a bill which would allow for the suspension of the driver's or fishing licenses of conscript service draft evaders. The Ministry of Defence's bill of amendments to the Military Service Act and other laws would allow for the restriction of the validity ...

ZAGREB, March 22 , 2018 - The Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) on Thursday called on lawmakers not to adopt the proposed amendments to the defence law and the law on military service, claiming that the amendments would constitute "a dangerous precedent" of introducing a new form of conscription ...

One of the two religious parties in the Knesset, Shas, has in effect already compromised and agreed that the conscription bill will not come up for a vote before the new state budget is passed. On Saturday, United Torah Judaism, joined Shas's compromise after rabbis Gershon Edelstein and Chaim ...

These were the expressions from not only the public but the Hon'ble President, the PM and the Head of the ASEAN countries present for the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath. The all women motorcycle contingent of the BSF Known as 'Seema Bhavani' displayed some outlandish stunts and acrobatics on ...

A new court ruled on Friday that the Finnish practice of allowing male Jehovah's Witnesses to avoid conscription is discriminatory. The Helsinki Court of Appeal on Friday voted 4-3 for naming the policy discriminatory against other conscientious objectors. The ruling came in a discrimination case brought by ...

Russians Threatened With Conscription and Gay Homestays in Presidential Campaign Ad. Youtube. A video calling on Russians to vote in the presidential elections next month has raised controversy over appeals to fear based on homophobia and racism. The three-minute video paints a dystopian future ...

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“The accord and harmony among citizens make military conscription for Saudis unnecessary. The Security Committee of the Council does not see the need to discuss a proposal for conscription as there are thousands of unemployed young people who want to take up careers in the armed forces and not be ...

The end of conscription will be “a death knell” for the island's defence force, a group of former commanding officers warned yesterday. The Nine Colonels, who battled against plans to end conscription into the Royal Bermuda Regiment, said it had predicted not enough volunteers would be found to ...

In South Korea, two years of military service is obligatory for male citizens ages 18 to 35—even for K-pop superstars. But ever since G-Dragon, leader of the hit K-pop boy band Big Bang, enlisted on Feb. 27, his army unit has been overrun with fan mail, the Korea Times reports. “G-Dragon is facing ...

KUWAIT: The defense ministry's conscription authority urged the Ministry of Interior to abstain from issuing driving licenses to citizens turning 18 without first receiving a letter from the National Service (Conscription) Authority stating that they have been drafted. MoI's acting assistant undersecretary for traffic ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on conscription of citizens of Azerbaijan into the active military service and transfer of the servicemen from active military service to reserve units on April 1-30, 2018. Under the order, the Azerbaijani citizens born in 2000 who are 18 years of age on the ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties in Israel have warned they may not vote for the budget law if the government did not vote on a bill to exempt Haredim from compulsory recruitment, Arab48 reported yesterday. The Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, which are part of the Israeli coalition government, have ...

Reading Naman Habtom-Desta's case for conscription, I felt like all the world's problems could be solved: people will be less keen on their country getting militarily involved elsewhere as the army is not made up of paid professionals, a universal draft promises social equality, and even greater ...