YANGON: Greater than 1,000 individuals lined up on the Thai embassy in Yangon on Friday as younger individuals sought to go away Myanmar after the junta mentioned it might impose army service.The army mentioned final weekend it might implement a legislation permitting it to name up all males aged 18-35 and ladies aged 18-27 to serve for not less than two years, because it struggles to quell opposition to its 2021 coup.The junta faces widespread armed opposition to its rule three years after seizing energy from an elected civilian authorities and just lately suffered a sequence of beautiful losses to an armed alliance of ethnic minority teams.The Thai embassy in Yangon has been swamped with younger women and men looking for visas to get out of Myanmar because the announcement final Saturday that the “Individuals’s Army Service Regulation” could be introduced into power.On Friday, an AFP journalist noticed a queue of between 1,000 and a pair of,000 individuals snaking via the streets close to the mission in downtown Yangon — in contrast with lower than 100 earlier than Saturday’s announcement.The embassy mentioned it’s issuing 400 numbered tickets a day with a purpose to handle the queue.Scholar Aung Phyo, 20, mentioned he arrived on the embassy at 8 pm on Thursday and slept in his automobile earlier than beginning to queue round midnight.”We needed to wait for 3 hours and police opened the safety gate round 3 am and we needed to run to the entrance of the embassy to attempt to get locations for a token,” he informed AFP, utilizing a pseudonym due to fears for his security.”After we bought a token, individuals who did not get one have been nonetheless queuing in entrance of the embassy hoping they may give out extras.”The legislation was authored by a earlier junta in 2010 however by no means used and it isn’t clear the way it will now be enforced.No particulars have been given about how these known as up could be anticipated to serve however many younger persons are not eager to attend and discover out.”I’ll go to Bangkok with a vacationer visa and hope to remain there for some time,” Aung Phyo mentioned.”I have never determined but to work or examine. I simply needed to flee from this nation.”The junta has mentioned it’s taking measures to arm pro-military militias because it battles opponents throughout the nation — each anti-coup “Individuals’s Defence Forces” and extra long-standing armed teams belonging to ethnic minorities.Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun mentioned on Saturday the army service system was wanted “due to the scenario taking place in our nation”.Greater than 4,500 individuals have been killed within the army’s crackdown on dissent since its February 2021 coup and over 26,000 arrested, based on an area monitoring group.