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End Burma's Use of Child Soldiers

What You Can Do: Child Soldiers in Burma

1) Contact your government's foreign ministry. Urge it to strongly condemn the recruitment of children by Burma's army and by armed opposition groups, and to use diplomatic and other means to press Burma's government, the State Peace and Development Council, to end all recruitment and use of children as soldiers and to demobilize all children from its armed forces.

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2) Contact Burma's mission to the United Nations. Urge the government to immediately end all recruitment and use of children under age eighteen as soldiers, and to demobilize all children currently in its forces.

His Excellency Mr. Kyaw Tint Swe
Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations
10 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10021
Fax: 212/737-2421

His Excellency U Mya Than
Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations
47 Avenue Blanc
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Fax: 41 22 738-4882
E-mail: mission.myanmar@ties.itu.int

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