1. Introduction The country of Myanmar is facing not only political and social chaos but also many challenges after the coup. Hate speech becomes a major challenge among those problems. People in Myanmar have become victims of historic disaffection, social tensions among different ethnicities, and power dynamics. Hate speech also becomes a big challenge to national harmony and social stability. Myanmar consists of different states and regions with diverse cultures and different ethnicities. Those differences were used as a source to spread hate speech. This hate speech includes words that can incite terrorism, discrimination, and aggressiveness among residents with different religions and ethnicities. The Myanmar military creates fear and aggressiveness to destroy the stability of democratic administration and human rights so that they can keep their power longer. If the public can understand the source and spreading mechanism of hate speech, this problem can be solved better. The objective of this report is not only to do documentation and analysis of hate speech but also to support that civil society organizations and international communities are able to tackle hate speech better. 2. Research Methodology As hate speech is a term that comes from emotion, there is a wide spectrum in defining it, not a specific one. BHRN, therefore, standardized the definition of hate speech for this report as follows. Hate speech in this report means aggressiveness and hatred against protected characteristics of a person or a group, blaming, discriminative expression, writing, gesture, or art expression of excoriation, or dehumanization. It means attacking someone’s faith, language, gender, sexual orientation, origin, ethnicity, skin color, race, belief, citizenship, and physical appearance. The monitored hate speeches were categorized as (1) Criminalizing Hate Speech, (2)

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