JAKARTA - About 6,000 school students skipped classes and joined a demonstration in Hamburg to oppose plans to re-impose conscription in Germany.
Protests against Germany's militarization also took place in other cities, including Berlin. Earlier, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported that young demonstrators in Berlin called on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to go to the battlefield himself.
As reported by ANTARA from Sputnik, the group of students of the School Strike Against Conscription, which organized the demonstration, said the reintroduction of conscription was part of war preparations and students did not want to be part of military action that only benefited German capitalist companies.
The new military service regulation in Germany allows for the reintroduction of military service, which was suspended in 2011, if there are not enough volunteers or if the security situation worsens.
Based on the draft, the German federal parliament, the Bundestag, proposes what is called "military service based on need", while an increase in the number of troops to the required level can also be carried out by random selection through a lottery-like system.
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