Junta administrators soliciting bribes, promising to exempt families from conscription

Amid increasing forced recruitment for military service in Myanmar, junta administrators have begun extorting bribes from eligible people and their relatives to evade conscription or arrest, civilians in Mandalay Region and Naypyitaw said. 

Administrators have been extorting these payments since December, according to at least five residents of Naypyitaw Union Territory and Mandalay Region who spoke to Myanmar Now.