Sentence examples for compulsory conscription from inspiring English sources
Other sources described a harsh regime of compulsory conscription into fighting forces.
National Service meant compulsory conscription into the armed forces – usually the army or the RAF, but mostly the former – for 18 months, a term increased to two years after the Korean war.
Compulsory conscription was abolished in January 2008.
Popular support for a compulsory conscription bill rose after the massacres.
5489 men who at age 17 19 years tested their isometric muscle strength (hand grip, arm flexion and knee extension) during the compulsory conscription.
An appalling human rights record, forced labour, indefinite compulsory military conscription and widespread use of torture has earned Eritrea the sobriquet "Africa's North Korea".
New arrivals were equally scared of the backlash they could face from authorities in Eritrea, where citizens face compulsory military conscription and torture is widespread according to Amnesty International.
The national assembly hasn't met since 2002; the 1997 constitution has never been implemented; there is no independent judiciary; extra-judicial executions, torture, arbitrary detentions of journalists, teachers, and members of religious groups are common; Eritreans are not allowed to move, speak, assemble or organise freely; indefinite compulsory military conscription and forced labour prevails.
But the young politically active Turks I spoke to recently in Istanbul feel that social and political freedom is not yet a reality in a country still oppressing its Kurdish population, still tentative on gay rights and still operating compulsory military conscription.
Contingents of Belgian revolutionaries had served in the French army since 1792, but after the occupation, compulsory military conscription was extended to Belgians, 160,000 of whom were forced into the French army by 1813.
