Abusive Hate Speech, (3) Dehumanizing Hate Speech, (4) Violence Inciting Hate
Speech, (5) Threatening Hate Speech, and (6) Hate Speech that supports
prejudicial actions inspired by hate speech.
BHRN has daily documented hate speech terms and usages found in the contents
–based on the current political crisis - disseminated by the military.
This report was written after monitoring both online and printed media which were
used by Junta and its supporters to spread their hate speeches. BHRN has
monitored 3 Facebook groups, 13 Facebook accounts, 24 Telegram channels, 21
TikTok accounts, and 4 Printed Media during October of 2024.
Junta’s Propagative Methodology
The spreading of hate speech in Myanmar is more intensified based on the politics
after 2010. Many massacres happened among different ethnicities as a result of
spreading hate speech. When the use of social media increased in Myanmar, the
spreading of hate speech increased as well. The social harmony among people
collapsed and social tension is increased.
According to the BHRN’s monitoring, it is found that hate speeches were created
to incite religious and ethnic conflicts among different communities during October.
It is recorded that, those areas where the military faced losses, were more
targeted by the hate speech such as Kokang, Palaung, Ta’aung, Chin, and
Rakhine ethnicities. The military portrayed the ethnic people as terrorists and
portrayed themselves as the holy people who were saving the country.
The Myanmar military is also using a particular technique of spreading hate
speech that can affect the emotions and feelings of the residents of those areas
where they target a particular area or an organization. The military also applies the
propagative mechanism that creates disaffection, aggressiveness, fear, and hatred
so that the public will give up on revolution and turn to disunion.
Hate speech and propagation are the main sources that create hatred among
different communities and lead to conflicts. Even though there were organizations
that tried to tackle hate speech in Myanmar, it was not enough yet.
Context of misinformation as hate speech
In this report, BHRN has analysed hate speech in the context of the ongoing
political tensions in Myanmar. Sometimes, when measured by international