Jun 2026 - Digital Hate Monthly Report (Eng -Myan)
- Facebook: monitored 3 groups, one page, and 13 accounts; identified 40 incidents of hate speech.
- Telegram: Monitored 24 Channels; identified 42 incidents of hate speech.
- TikTok: Monitored 24 Accounts; identified 16 incidents of hate speech.
- Print Media: Monitored 2 newspapers and 1 journal.
In total, 98 instances of misinformation/disinformation and hate speech were documented during May. The findings are presented using tables, graphs, and clear descriptive text. This report further analyses the root causes and impacts of hate speech and offers recommendations for prevention and mitigation. Due to significant limitations in achieving comprehensive coverage of the entire social media landscape, there may be undocumented incidents of hate speech that fall outside the scope of this report.
Jun 2026 - Summary of Monthly Situation Update
In June 2026, the junta continued to seek recognition from foreign governments as it simultaneously carried out airstrikes on villages, displacement camps, and other civilian areas across the country. Min Aung Hlaing followed his late-May visit to India with a state visit to China, where China issued a joint statement endorsing Min Aung Hlaing and welcoming the military’s fraudulent elections, and the month closed with BIMSTEC moving to hand the junta a regional leadership role while Laos and Belarus deepened ties with the junta. Human rights organisations and parliamentarians pressed governments to reject the junta and pursue accountability for its crimes, as Fortify Rights urged the United Kingdom to lead an International Criminal Court referral under Article 14 of the Rome Statute and civil society lodged a complaint with Thailand’s national human rights commission over gas revenue reaching the military.
May 2026 - Digital Hate Monthly Report (Eng -Myan)
This report was compiled by monitoring online and print media used by the military junta and its supporters to disseminate hate speech. During May 2026, BHRN conducted a monitoring exercise with the following results:
- Facebook: monitored 3 groups, one page, and 13 accounts; identified 43 incidents of hate speech.
- Telegram: Monitored 24 Channels; identified 31 incidents of hate speech.
- TikTok: Monitored 24 Accounts; identified 26 incidents of hate speech.
- Print Media: Monitored 2 newspapers and 1 journal.
In total, 100 instances of misinformation/disinformation and hate speech were documented during May. The findings are presented using tables, graphs, and clear descriptive text. This report further analyses the root causes and impacts of hate speech and offers recommendations for prevention and mitigation. Due to significant limitations in achieving comprehensive coverage of the entire social media landscape, there may be undocumented incidents of hate speech that fall outside the scope of this report.
May 2026 - Summary of Monthly Situation Update
The Myanmar military junta carried out near-daily airstrikes, artillery bombardments, naval shelling, and village burnings against civilians across Myanmar in May 2026, while simultaneously pursuing international recognition from governments that have an obligation to hold it accountable. India became the first government to receive Min Aung Hlaing as a head of state since the Myanmar military junta’s illegal seizure of power in February 2021, extending full head-of-state honours to a man the ICC Prosecutor has sought to arrest for crimes against humanity. The Quad Foreign Ministers had called for the release of those detained in Myanmar just days before the visit. The 48th ASEAN Summit in Cebu produced no enforceable action on Myanmar for the fifth consecutive year. Thailand advocated for junta reintegration into ASEAN, and Malaysia’s foreign minister travelled to Naypyidaw without engaging the National Unity Government or any democratic actors. Foreign ministers agreed to hold a virtual meeting with junta Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe outside the ASEAN Special Envoy’s mandate and without the National Unity Government present. On 5 May, the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network, the Chin Human Rights Organization, and the Myanmar Accountability Project jointly condemned the junta’s campaign to obstruct war crimes proceedings in Timor-Leste and Indonesia. The junta had expelled Timor-Leste’s chargé d’affaires in January 2026 after Dili opened a criminal file against Min Aung Hlaing. The Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union carried out its first overseas diplomatic mission, with NUG Foreign Minister Zin Mar Aung leading a delegation to Canada from 30 May alongside representatives of the Karen National Union and the Karenni State Interim Executive Council.
Arakan Army Forcing Rohingya to Build Settlements for Rakhine on Their Own Confiscated Land
(LONDON, June 15, 2026) The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its armed wing, the Arakan Army (AA), should immediately end the forced labor of Rohingya civilians in northern Maungdaw Township and halt the confiscation and redistribution of Rohingya-owned land to ethnic Rakhine settlers, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. Information gathered by BHRN's human rights researchers reveals that since the last week of May 2026, the ULA/AA has imposed forced labor demands on at least six Rohingya villages in northern Maungdaw, more than 300 people in total, to build infrastructure for new settlements it intends to establish for Rakhine communities at Sapay Kone and Maung Hna Ma, both former Rohingya villages.
The Arakan Army is seizing Rohingya land, handing it to Rakhine settlers, and forcing the dispossessed Rohingya to build the new settlements with their own hands," said Kyaw Win, Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network. "This is forced labour in the service of permanently erasing the Rohingya from northern Maungdaw.
