The military has been consistently using hate speech as a tool to keep their power longer throughout the history of the country. Since the coup, the Myanmar military and its supporters have been spreading religious hate speeches targeting ethnic minorities and religious minorities to make division, disunion and weaken the revolutionary forces, and to deviate public attention from the coup, oppression of people, and failure of the military in the battlefield.

The junta has been disseminating its ideology by means of hate speech throughout its administration in history. As the military faces many failures in the battlefield of Rakhine State, the military disseminates more hate speeches through both online and print media, which could lead to conflicts between Rakhine and Rohingya. It is also found that fake news was circulated to create fear among the public that the country is in danger as some people were trying to demolish the 1982 citizenship laws.

The junta and its supporters are circulating hate speeches in various ways, via both online and printed media, to make the public misunderstand revolution forces activists.

The objective of BHRN monthly report is to monitor and analysis the sources of hate speech, circulated by the military and its supporters. BHRN documented a total of 61 hate speech cases in the month of June 2024.

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