11 Facts About Draft resistance

Draft resistance evasion is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces of one's nation.

Draft resistance evaders are sometimes pejoratively referred to as draft dodgers, although in certain contexts that term has been used non-judgmentally or as an honorific.

Draft resistance resisters argue that they seek to confront, not evade or avoid, the draft.

Draft resistance evasion has been a significant phenomenon in nations as different as Colombia, Eritrea, Canada, France, Russia, South Korea, Syria, and the United States.

Draft resistance evasion is said to have characterized every military conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Draft resistance evaders were forced to escape to the forests and live there as outlaws, in a practice that was facetiously called serving in the kapykaarti or metsakaarti .

Draft resistance evasion carries stiff punishments, including fines and years of imprisonment.

Draft resistance never attends the muster, but, to avoid the fine, sends some of his men, who answer to his name; the same man is not invariably his deputy on parade: in this, Mr — suits his own convenience; sometimes the collecting clerk, sometimes one of the brewers, at others a drayman: and to finish this military pantomime, a firelock is often dispensed with, for the more convenient wartime weapon—a cudgel.

Many say that the draft resistance movement was spearheaded by an organization called The Resistance.

Draft resistance evasion was not a criminal offense under Canadian law.

Draft resistance referred to this outcome as a matter of class discrimination and passionately argued against it.