A/HRC/39/CRP.2 tent, until eventually the merchant is forced out. The parable implies that, if a few “Kalar” are let into the country, they will slowly take over and will force the original inhabitants out. In a post from the official Facebook page of the Office of the Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief, Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing, this parable was explained in detail in connection with the issue of the Rohingya in Rakhine State. The post is one of a series of excerpts from the event “Talk on Rakhine Issue and Security Outlook”, organized by the Myawaddy Media Group on 8 September 2017, and livestreamed on the Myawaddy Media and the Facebook pages of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief. After describing the merchant and camel parable, the moderator stated that “Islam is a disease spreading globally” and that “Muslims were attempting to islamise the whole world”. Prior to its deletion by Facebook in August 2018, the post had almost 10,000 reactions, over 6,000 shares and 146 comments. 2901 • Khoe Win Bengali (“Bengali that sneaked in”): in the Myanmar language, the term suggests that the Rohingya have illegally entered the country by stealth and that there is a plan to launch an invasion. For example, a post published on 26 August 2017 used the term numerous times interchangeably with the word “terrorists” to refer to ARSA and the Rohingya population together. Titled “a just war has started”, the post wrote: “Even the UN that supports the Bengali... the US and British embassies... and the international community all condemned the actions of the Khoe Win Bengali terrorists. So, in this just war, to avenge the deaths of the ethnic people who got beheaded, and the policemen who got hacked into pieces, we are asking the Tatmadaw to turn these terrorists into powder and not leave any piece of them behind.” The post, which included no examples in relation to the alleged killing of “ethnic people” and policemen, had 20,000 reactions, over 11,000 shares and 4,100 comments by July 2018.2902 • Kalasoe (“Bad Kalar”): the term precedes the emergence of ARSA and implies that Rohingya are violent. It has been prominently used after the 2012 violence in Rakhine State. For example, in June 2014, an excerpt of an article from the journal Myanmar Express was posted on an online blog. The excerpt featured an interview with a former military officer, Khin Nyunt, on the question of Rohingya. 2903 Khin Nyunt stated: “There is no Rohingya, because Rohingya are insurgents. There is RSO. We call them Kalasoe. Kalasoe insurgents are the RSO group, short for Rohingya Solidarity Organization. Rohingya is the name of insurgents”. 2904 1313. Expressions using these derogatory terms are found frequently and in very large numbers, both offline and online. They are often accompanied by cartoons, memes or graphic content, amplifying the impact of the message. Below are two examples of widely shared cartoons. The first one is by Harn Lay, a famous Myanmar cartoonist. 2901 2902 2903 2904 On file with the Mission. On file with the Mission. From 1997 to 2003 Khin Nyunt, then a General, was First Secretary (de facto Prime Minister) of the State Peace and Development Council, the military junta, and then he was formally Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004, when he was purged by the junta, http://theimageofpeople.blogspot.com/2014/06/rso.html. 325