Information on a law of the Ministry of Defense pertaining to people who are not capable of combat in time of war. [SUN8775]
According to a 1988 Amnesty International document, a 1967 Soviet
law entitled
On Universal Military Obligation states that
"the only legally-approved ground for release from the obligation
to do active military service is physical unfitness. Persons
suffering from illness which renders them temporarily unfit for
military service, as well as certain categories of students and
individuals with family obligations, can have their call-up
deferred. Those whose military service is deferred can be re-called
to active service at any time until they reach the age of 27"
(Amnesty International 1988, 22).
Although there has been some military reform in the USSR since
1988, there is no information currently available to the IRBDC on
whether the sections of military law dealing with those persons not
capable of performing active service have been changed.
Further information on this topic is currently not available to
the IRBDC.
Bibliography
Amnesty International. 1988.
Conscientious Objection to Military
Service. London: Amnesty International, International
Secretariat.