A/HRC/39/CRP.2 soldiers that they must come back to fight. My younger brother was forced to join the KIA in 2012 – he was 20-years old.743 341. The Mission received multiple accounts of women and men escaping military training.744 For example, one victim recounted that he escaped TNLA training in September 2011 in Namhsan, Shan State, because he wanted to look after his mother.745 342. The Mission also recorded accounts of discrimination among EAOs. Many have affirmed that the KIA forcibly recruited from other ethnic minorities in Kachin State, such as the Lisu, Shan or Ruwang, rather than the Jinghpaw.746 Others have said that Ta’ang members fighting for the RCSS or KIA were not treated equally. 747 A Ta’ang community leader mentioned that six Ta’ang young adults were forcibly recruited to join a KIA military training in Muse Township, Shan State, in January 2016.748 In one account received, the RCSS forced Ta’ang villagers that had enrolled with the TNLA to join their ranks instead. The RCSS beat villagers asking, “why did your son join the other group?” 749 343. Women were also recruited by EAOs and often had to perform more tasks than men.750 A source mentioned that, “not many women were recruited in my village. Usually women have to go through the same training as the men, in addition, however, they have to also clean member’s clothes and uniforms and cook for them.”751 344. The Mission further has reasons to believe that some EAOs have forced civilians to work for them and that such work was not voluntary. The Mission received accounts of the KIA and the SSA-S using civilians to dig trenches or to work as porters. 752 One source mentioned that, from 2011 to 2013, the SSA-S would often require civilians to work for them, and that this would increase as fighting with the Tatmadaw intensified. He said: “The SSAS used villagers for portering and when the villager did not want to go they would beat them”.753 Similarly, the Mission was told by one interviewee that to his knowledge and in the period before he fled in 2013, the MNDAA would sometimes require villagers to carry their arms and other heavy materials in Laukkaing Township, Kokang Self-Administered Zone. 754 345. A victim shared how he was used for forced labour by the KIA in Mansi Township, Kachin State, in 2012: I was used by the KIA to dig a trench. The KIA came and took our names and other details, and we were told to go and work. I worked for 2-3 weeks for the KIA, building a large bunker and a military trench for the soldiers. The KIA did not treat us badly – they had shower facilities, we were given meals. I wanted to sell vegetables in the logging area controlled by the KIA and we needed support from the KIA – as a result, when we were asked to work, we had to. We did not get paid for this. 755 (c) Forced recruitment of children 346. The Mission amassed a reliable body of information demonstrating a pattern of EAOs recruiting children into their armed forces, in violation of international law. 756 The Mission was able to collect information on child recruitment conducted by the TNLA, KIA, RCSS 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 86 QI-081. DI-070, K-143, PI-027, PI-100, QI-088. QI-088. K-143, PI-001, PI-027, PI-033. K-143, PI-101. K-143. QI-088. PI-045, PI-094, PI-101. PI-094. QI-081, QI-093. QI-093. QI-092. QI-081. DI-070, K-061, K-064, K-143, PI-001, PI-014, PI-093, PI-095, PI-101.