Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth

FILE - People wait in line to enter into the Thai Embassy for visa appointments in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 20, 2024. Crowds of people have thronged to get passports and visas to neighboring Thailand after Myanmar activated a conscription law.

Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.