His Excellency Mr. Kyaw Tint Swe
Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations
10 East 77th Street
New York, NY 10021
Fax: 212/737-2421

OR

His Excellency U Mya Than
Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations Office and Other International Organizations
47 Avenue Blanc
1202 Geneva, Switzerland
Fax: 41 22 738-4882
E-mail: mission.myanmar@ties.itu.int

Your Excellency:

I have read with deep concern reports of widespread forced recruitment and use of children by Burma's national army. Human rights groups have documented the recruitment of children as young as eleven, brutal treatment during training, and the use of children to participate in active combat and to carry out human rights abuses against civilians.

I urge your government to immediately end all recruitment of children under the age of eighteen and their use as soldiers, and to work with international agencies such as UNICEF to demobilize all children currently in the army.

Sincerely yours,

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