Myanmar military's hate speech campaign on Facebook: UN investigation

Relationships between the pages were observed in a variety of ways: they often shared creators, administrators, and editors, and regularly posted content using the same IP addresses used by the Myanmar military. “This network often featured identical content posted on multiple pages, sometimes within a matter of minutes,” IIMM said. The investigators highlighted that the […]

UN says mass displacement in Myanmar: More than 280,000 people forced to flee as conflict escalates

“As of yesterday, more than 286,000 people have been displaced since fighting escalated on October 26, and this number continues to rise,” he said. Fighting broke out in late October in the north of Shan State, near the Chinese border, where three ethnic minority groups coordinated an attack against central military power. The Arakan Army, […]

Myanmar military accused of war crimes in German criminal complaint

“They (the army) don’t think of us as people and treat us like animals”, said 35-year-old ethnic Chin. Her husband went missing in September following the 2021 military coup. The 215-page complaint alleges that the military “systematically killed, raped, tortured, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured and committed other acts amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity and war […]

Rohingya rebels claim Wednesday’s shelling was against Myanmar’s military, not ARSA

When contacted on Friday, Romain retracted his earlier statement and referred it to the Border Guard Bangladesh. No security agency and paramilitary forces of Bangladesh have yet issued any statement in this regard. ‘All we want is freedom’ Like millions of other Rohingya who were displaced from their homes in 2017 following a coordinated brutal […]