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In this month's monitoring, hate speech targets were the Christian community, Islam community, ethnic armed organizations involved in spring revolution, NUG, PDF, LGBTQ, ethnic groups and Daw Aung Sann Suu Kyi. In this finding, the most targeted group was Islam Community, the second was PDF and the third was NUG.
(3.1.1) The hate speech targeted to Islam Community
● It was written that Soldier Ko Htwe should not be called as a ‘martyr’ because he was a Muslim and he allowed assassinators led by Galong U Saw to assassinate General Aung Sann and his ministers, and Ko Htwe was killed only when the assassinators returned to go out. It was also said that there was not a Muslim in ‘The Thirty Comrades’ and the Muslim started involving after the war to control the state power. Moreover, there was a conspiracy of Muslim in the assassination case of General Aung Sann as the Muslim believe that they will go to heaven after dead, so U Razaq and Solider Ko Htwe were supporting the assassination case as well. This hate speech was uploaded on Ko Myo Facebook Account known as a nationalist. Image
● Hate speech targeted OIC, NUG and Christian ethnic armed organizations.
A pro-junta Telegram Channel known as Ko Thet Channel uploaded a bar chart showing the background reasons of violence against Buddhist Monks. In that chart, it was mentioned that NUG got support from OIC and NUG gave financial support to Christian originations such as KIA and KNU that hold communist ideology to kill Buddhist Monks. It was also written that the violence against Buddhist monks were intentionally done as there was not killing of other religious leaders. That pro-junta Telegram Channel had 68200 subscribers and that hate speech had 27.4K views. Image
(3.1.2) Hate speech targeted the Christian community and Ethic armed organizations
● It was written that the KinPon Gate attack on Oct 12th, 2022 and the explosion of a bridge on the highway road of KyaikHteeYoo Pagoda on Jul 6th, 2023 were done by Christian organization KNU with the support of OIC member states to intentionally attack the Buddhist religion. Image
● A pro-junta Telegram channel named as Ka Ka Han Telegram Channel controlled by a junta lobbyist Han Nyein Oo, posted a cartoon related to the news of NUG minister Mahn Win Khine Than meeting KNLA and PDF. The cartoon was depreciating PDF as dogs and accusing PDF were crying just to get money from foreigns. Image
● It was written that the individuals involved in the revolution had been in desperate life, some were dead, some accused each other as ‘betrayers’ and EAO also brutally killed those who ran away. That hate speech article portraying ethnic armed organizations as criminals was written by Maung Nyo Win (Ayeyarwady) and published by Bullet News Journal Vol (5), No (18). Image
(3.1.3) Hate Speech Targeted PDF
● Military Lover Facebook Group posted that PDF are terrorists and they are killing innocent civilians and raping children in Saw Township. Image
● A pro-junta Telegram Channel named as Ka Ka Han Channel used by Han Nyein Oo posted that referring to PDFs as martyrs after their dead was awful and he was referring to PDFs as dogs. Ka Ka Han Channel had 45000 subscribers and that hate speech had 11400 views. Image
● Military Lover Facebook Group posted that PDF killed an old person who came back with his pension and took that money. Image
● It was also written that PDFs were arbitrarily asking for money from the civilians in the name of revolution while Mudon-Thanphyuzayat road was underwater. Image
(3.1.4) Hate Speech related to NUG
● NUG foreign affairs minister Daw Zin Mar Aung attended the oath-taking ceremony of Timor-Leste’s Government in Timor-Leste. The Junta foreign minister summoned the Charge Affairs of Timor-Leste Embassy and told them that NUG and PDF were terrorists and NUG was under banishment. He also depreciated Daw Zin Mar Aung as a prostitute. That hate speech was uploaded in Telegram Channel of NaungTawLay, an ultra-nationalist activist. That telegram channel had 1.2K subscribers. Image
● Ko Aung Kyaw Moe, a Rohingya, was appointed as a vice-minister of NUG. Based on that news, Yan Naing Magway Account posted that NUG was to kill Myanmar Buddhist community each other by obeying English, American and OIC. Upon their control, NUG is disintegrating Myanmar and recognizing other ethnicities as national ethnics to give them citizen cards, so that state, race and religion needed to be protected. Image
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