The numbers continue to grow, with some 400 to 600 Eritreans arriving in Sudan each month, fleeing political repression, military conscription and poverty in their homeland.
Switzerland has voted overwhelmingly to retain compulsory military service. In the referendum all 23 cantons chose to keep conscription. Imogen Foulkes reports.
I think if you look at conscription as the government picking out certain individuals to go fight in war, then that would be a violation of their rights—their natural right to life.
But if the majority decides, if the majority promulgates a generally applicable law and if it votes duly according to fair procedures, then there is no violation, whether it's a system of taxation or a system of conscription.
So the real question is, you know, how does he himself figure it out between " I agree to give up my life, give up my property" when he talks about taxes or military conscription for the fact.