PNLF released the recruitment policy
The Palaung State Liberation Front (PNLF) has issued a recruitment policy in Taang families where families with two or more males between the ages of 18 and under 35 must come to the military without military service as per national history duty.
The policy, which was issued on July 29, 2017, states that a woman from every family with two or more daughters between the ages of 18 and 25 must come to serve.
As an exemption, in the families with two sons, if one is who have been in the parish for three years prior to the recruitment period or have the chronic disease or suffer from mental illness or people with disabilities, the other one will be exempted, and if the one is in the prison, the other one will be exempted from military service during the period of serving a long term of imprisonment for any crime.
If there are two sons in the family, even though one of whom is a Myanmar government employee,the other one will not be exempted from military service, and those who are fit enough to serve in the military but want to be exempted from military service and immigrate to another region, that one will not be exempted from military service, but will be considered as a regular army list.
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