Latvians Refusing to Do Military Service
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<i> Reuters</i>
MOSCOW — Latvians of conscription age are refusing to do their military service, the official Tass news agency reported Tuesday.
It said the recruits in the Latvian republic are invoking a clause in the 1949 Geneva Convention barring service in an occupying army. They are filling in special printed slips invoking the convention and refusing to serve.
Tass implied that the forms distort the Geneva Convention. It did not say who is supplying them to the recruits.
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