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• n  compulsory military service

• This is conscription.
• Virtually unnoticed in the catalogue of horrors emanating from Sierra Leone's brutal civil war is the forcible conscription of children, some as young as 7 years old.
• The crisis came, rather, over conscription and the concomitant suspension of habeas corpus.

• muster
• draft
• selective service

News & Articles

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• Norway votes overwhelmingly to adopt gender-neutral armed forces draft
  OSLO, Norway, June 16 (UPI) -- Norway's Parliament voted overwhelmingly to install a policy of gender-neutral armed forces conscription, Norway's defense minister announced.
  June 16, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Franz Josef Jung in International Herald Tribune
  The Bundeswehr is the first democratically legitimized conscription-based army in German history,Jung said.
• Tom Hayden in AFP
  Students were the bulwark of the anti-Vietnam war movement because students were being drafted, full stop,Hayden, a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1962, told AFP. "Ending forced conscription radically...
• Hamid Karzai in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
  For many years, I have been visited by Afghan community leaders who advise me to go back to some form of conscription for the Afghan Army,Karzai said in the German city of Munich on February 7. "So the young boys from the Afghan...