No less than 150 men are being forced into militaryservice from Kyauk Ta Lone Muslim refugee camp in Kyaukphyu township of RakhineState recently.

A young man from the camp informed that the Kyauk TaLone IDP camp management committee had conducted a list of IDP men, who are 18to 55 years old, on 17 February and announced that they have to serve in themilitary.

"Three people, including U Maw Ni from the campmanagement committee, collected the list for military service. They checked ourages and prepared the list," he added.

The new military service law indicates that citizensunder the specific age group should join the military services and hence thelist included names of those individuals.

Moreover, only IDP men were included in the list.

According to a young human rights activist fromKyaukphyu, the military junta was expecting 150 individuals for militaryservice from  Kyauk Ta Lone IDP camp within a week.

"We have heard that the soldiers asked the campmanagement to provide 150 individuals. Otherwise, they would be arrested,” heasserted.

Narinjara News tried to contact Kyauk Ta Lone IDP campadministrator U Maw Ni, but failed to get his response.

There are over 300 households (more than 1,000 people)in the camp. They were relocated from urban wards like Ah Yar Shi,  PikeSeik, Than Ban Chaung and Toe Chae ward of Kyaukphyu township in 2012 due tothe conflicts.

On 10 February, the junta began enforcing themandatory military service law. The political observers term it as adictatorial approach as it evades the people's consent.