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| Pro-Regime Syrians Support Army but Dodge Draft |
| 2015-04-20 |
| [AnNahar] Young Syrian men in regime-controlled areas are using any means necessary, including violent protests, to avoid military conscription -- even if they support the government. More than 80,000 soldiers and other pro-regime fighters have been killed in the four-year-old conflict, out of a total of roughly 220,000 dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "I'm with the regime but I am a deserter, because military service in Syria means death," said George, a Christian student from Damascus. "Very few young men accept to enlist because at our age, no one wants to die." |
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