January 2024 – Digital Hate Monthly Report (Eng -Myan)
19 February 2024
A total of 108 hate speech cases were found during BHRN’s monitoring process this month. When Facebook accounts were disabled, some created new accounts and some moved to Telegram channels. The military mainly used Telegram channels to spread hate speeches and the hate speeches were done through the cartoons more in this month.
Hate speech targets and expressions
In this month’s monitoring, the group targeted by hate speech the most was PDF and the second was AA and the third was NUG. Moreover, hate speeches targeting Rohingyas and ethnic groups were monitored as well.
In addition, the most used terms of hate speeches for this month are “dog, kelwar (a word used to call a dog in Rakhine State), terrorist, Ben people (referring to Bengali/Rohingya), illegal Bengali, Bengali with high reproductive rate, Kalar (a derogatory term referring to Muslim), extremist Christian.”
Announcements
28 February 2025
Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions , CSO Working Group on Independent National Human Rights Institution (Burma/Myanmar)
Open letter: Removal of the membership of the dis-accredited Myanmar National Human Rights Commission from the Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institution Forum
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