weapon and if it is the injury caused by the riot weapon or live ammunition, it is not possible for the head of the deceased person to be in good condition,” the article said. The supposedly ongoing nature of the investigation into Kyal Sin’s death seems to have been used as justification for security forces to break into a cemetery and exhume her body on Friday afternoon, just a day after her funeral. On Thursday, hundreds of Facebook and Tiktok accounts shared the same message claiming protesters were being killed by somebody other than the military and police. One of the earliest examples Frontier could locate was a Facebook post shared at 5:34am that day, during the nightly internet blackout. From 1am to 9am every night since February 14, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has forced gateway companies to restrict internet access. However, it is not cut entirely – network data from monitoring group NetBlocks shows connectivity inside the country tends to hover at around 20 percent of the norm. The March 4 Facebook post claimed that bullets found in victims’ bodies did not match those used by the military and were instead from the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, an armed group formed by student protesters who fled to the Thai-Myanmar border after the military crushed a popular uprising in 1988. The ABSDF, which signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in 2015, is estimated to have at most just a few hundred soldiers. “Police and soldiers haven’t used live rounds yet, they are only using rubber bullets,” the post claims, despite widespread evidence to the contrary. Soldiers have even openly threatened to kill protesters with live rounds in videos that spread on TikTok. A doctor in Mandalay previously said she had treated protesters injured by live rounds fired by security forces. Hundreds of users followed the post’s advice to copy and paste the message – a tactic to bypass content removals by social media platforms. These users included one with nearly 20,000 followers, while thousands of other accounts simply reshared the post. The grave of 19-year-old Mandalay protester Ma Kyal Sin, whose body has since been exhumed in a raid by security forces. (Frontier) A similar Facebook post from March 3 made other dubious claims, saying “international pressure has been less than expected” and that there has been “no public participation’ in the protests. These statements fly in the face of reality. International pressure is steadily mounting against the junta, with most countries studiously avoiding any action that would constitute recognition of the