 The State Peace and Development Council has asserted that all of its soldiers volunteered and that all of those accepted are 18 or over.According to Human Rights Watch as many as 70,000 boys serve in Burma/Myanmar's national army, the Tatmadaw, with children as young as 11 being forcibly recruited off the streets.Desertion, the group reported, leads to punishments of three to five years in prison or even execution.