The Burmese Government has denied allegations by the United Nations and various other non-governmental organizations that it forcibly recruits child soldiers and uses children as combatants.
Responding to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's report, Myanmar’s permanent representative to the UN U Kyaw Tint Swe said "there is no credible evidence of recruitment of child soldiers" in Myanmar. Mr. Swe said that Myanmar’s armed forces was an all-volunteer army and those who enrolled themselves did so of their own free will. He also mentioned that under Myanmar's laws, a person under the age of 18 could not enlist him/herself in the armed forces.
 Mr. Swe said that he felt that the situation in Myanmar was not in ant way a threat to international peace and security and that the evidence was not credible since it was received from insurgents in neighboring countries.  [Reported in Myanmar Times]

Other reports on child soldiers in Myanmar:
"MY GUN WAS AS TALL AS ME": Report by Human Rights Watch- http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/burma/
Action Appeal by the Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers- http://www.child-soldiers.org
Images Asia- http://www.imagesasia.org/