"A 14-year-old boy has told CSW of his experiences as one of an estimated 70,000 child soldiers forced to fight for the Burmese regime. Kyow*, who fled his frontline army unit, told a CSW fact-finding team to the Thai-Burmese border in late November 2002, that he was just 11 when he was abducted by uniformed soldiers while waiting at a bus stop. He was not allowed to contact his parents and has been unable to locate them for the past three years..."