A total of 87 hate speech cases were found during BHRN’s monitoring process this month. Facebook and TikTok accounts were not consistently used but temporarily and moved to other accounts and some moved to Telegram channels. The military mainly used Telegram channels and TikTok accounts to spread hate speeches.
Hate Speech Targets and Usages
In this month’s (the month of November) monitoring, hate speech targeted the most was PDFs and the second most was Arakan Army (AA) and the third was NUG. Moreover, hate speeches targeting the Rohingya ethnicity and Muslim community were found as well.
In addition, the most used terms of hate speeches for this month are "dog, terrorists, Bengali, Kalar (a derogatory term referring to Muslims), and evil.
Hate Speech Targeting the Muslim Community.
The Rohingya community in Germany was collecting donations for the Rohingya community of Myanmar. A Facebook account named Ko Than Win posted by referring to that news, that “the collection of money by the Rohingya community will not be for the local Rohingya in Myanmar but these funds will go to the Islamic Extremist Armed Groups. Even though the international community has been supporting the Rohingya since 2012, those funds went to Muslim armed groups only. There is no effective change on the ground by those fundings. This is a very dangerous issue”. In that post, Muslims were mentioned as terrorist criminals. That post used Criminalizing Hate Speech. Original Post (See the translation of the attached link below conclusion - 1)