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August 2026 - Summary of Monthly Situation Update

: Published: 14 September 2026

In August, Myanmar military forces carried out airstrikes, drone and gyrocopter attacks, artillery fire, village burnings, forced recruitment, and restrictions on humanitarian assistance across multiple states and regions. Civilians were killed in homes, displacement sites, monasteries, hospitals, and villages under resistance or ethnic armed organisation control. On 21 August, a Myanmar Air Force jet bombed a Buddhist monastery during a meditation retreat in Myaung Township, killing 14 people and injuring around 20. On 24 August, two military fighter jets bombed a Buddhist monastery housing a primary school in Paletwa Township while children were in class, killing five civilians, including two children, and injuring 17 others, including nine children.

July 2026 - Digital Hate Monthly Report (Eng -Myan)

: Published: 25 August 2026

This report was compiled by monitoring online and print media used by the military junta and its supporters to disseminate hate speech. During July 2026, BHRN conducted a monitoring exercise with the following results:

Facebook: monitored 3 groups, one page, and 13 accounts; identified 68 incidents of hate speech.
Telegram: Monitored 24 Channels; identified 28 incidents of hate speech.
TikTok: Monitored 24 Accounts; identified 18 incidents of hate speech.
Print Media: Monitored 2 newspapers and 1 journal.

In total, 114 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.

အမုန်းစကားများ ဖြန့်ဝေရန်အတွက် စစ်အစိုးရနှင့် ထောက်ခံသူများ အသုံးပြုနေသည့် အွန်လိုင်းနှင့် ပုံနှိပ်မီဒီယာတို့ကို စောင့်ကြည့်ခြင်းဖြင့် ဤအစီရင်ခံစာကို စုစည်းထားပါသည်။ အထူးသဖြင့် BHRN သည် ၂၀၂၆ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ တွင် Facebook group ၃ ခု Page ၁ ခု နှင့် Facebook Account ၁၃ ခု စောင့်ကြည့်မှုတွင် အမုန်းစကားတွေ့ရှိမှု ( ၆၈ ) ခု ၊ Telegram Channels ၂၄ ခု မှ အမုန်းစကားတွေ့ရှိ မှု ( ၂၈ ) ခု ၊ Tik Tok account ၂၄ ခုစောင့်ကြည့်ရာတွင် အမုန်းစကားတွေ့ရှိမှု ( ၁၈ ) ခုကို တွေ့ရှိခဲ့ရသည်။ ပုံနှိပ်မီဒီယာ စောင့်ကြည့်မှု အနေဖြင့် သတင်းစာ ၂ စောင် နှင့် ဂျာနယ် ၁ စောင် တို့ကို စောင့်ကြည့်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

ဇူလိုင်လအတွင်း အမုန်းစကားလေ့လာစောင့်ကြည့်မှုတွင် သတင်းတုသတင်းမှားများ၊ အမုန်းစကားဖြန့်ဝေမှု ( ၁၁၄ ) ခုကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ခဲ့သည်။ ရလဒ်များကို တင်ပြရာတွင် သုတေသနရလဒ်များကို ဇယားများ၊ ဂရပ်များနှင့် ရှင်းလင်းသော စာသားများဖြင့် တင်ပြမည်ဖြစ် သည်။ အမုန်းစကားများ၏ အဓိကအကြောင်းရင်းများ၊ သက်ရောက်မှုများနှင့် ကာကွယ်တားဆီးရန် နည်းလမ်းများကို အကြံပြုချက်များနှင့်အတူ တင်ပြမည်ဖြစ်သည်။ ဆိုရှယ်မီဒီယာတခုလုံးကို လွှမ်းခြုံနိုင်သည့် လေ့လာစောင့်ကြည့်မှုမျိုးကို လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်အတွက် အကန့်သတ်များစွာရှိသဖြင့် မှတ်တမ်းမတင်နိုင်သည့် အမုန်းစကားဖြစ်စဉ်များလည်း ရှိနိုင်ပါသည်။

Nine Years After Myanmar Military’s Genocidal Attacks, Rohingya Still Face Atrocities and Persecution

: Published: 24 August 2026

London, UK, August 24, 2026 - Nine years after the Myanmar military launched genocidal attacks against the Rohingya on August 25, 2017, Rohingya in Rakhine State continue to face violence, arbitrary detention, forced labour, land confiscation, severe restrictions on movement and access to humanitarian assistance, and renewed displacement, said Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) today. BHRN has documented the Myanmar military’s continuing persecution of the Rohingya as part of an ongoing genocide. The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its armed wing, the Arakan Army (AA), are also committing serious abuses against Rohingya in areas under their control.

On Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, BHRN remembers the Rohingya men, women and children who were killed, subjected to sexual violence, injured and driven from their homes during the 2017 attacks, as well as the survivors and families who have waited nine years for justice. Rohingya are still denied their identity and citizenship, restricted in their movement and ability to work, dispossessed of their land, and subjected to systematic discrimination, while those responsible for international crimes against them remain largely unpunished.

July 2026 - Summary of Monthly Situation Update

: Published: 10 August 2026

In July, ASEAN and neighbouring governments gave Myanmar’s illegal junta greater diplomatic access while its forces continued to attack civilians, imprison political opponents, obstruct aid, and exclude democratic representatives from decisions about the country’s future. ASEAN foreign ministers met the junta’s foreign minister at the ministerial level for the first time since the 2021 coup. Laos received Min Aung Hlaing with the protocol of a head of state, Thailand announced that it would host him in August, and Russia trained Myanmar military personnel in drone operations, helicopter deployments, sniping, communications, and other combat capabilities. These governments helped normalise and strengthen an illegal military regime responsible for mass atrocities, while excluding Myanmar’s democratic representatives and ignoring calls from civil society for accountability and an end to military rule.

The military also moved to consolidate the system it created through its fraudulent election. The military-controlled parliament rejected ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus, extended martial law in 58 townships, considered further restrictions on political participation, and continued to use military-controlled courts to punish peaceful opposition. Activists who had called for an election boycott, an end to forced conscription, and the release of political prisoners received sentences of up to 37 years. The election did not transfer power to a civilian government. It gave the military new institutions through which to preserve its authority, exclude opponents, and claim international recognition.

Jun 2026 - Digital Hate Monthly Report (Eng -Myan)

: Published: 16 July 2026

This report was compiled by monitoring online and print media used by the military junta and its supporters to disseminate hate speech. During June 2026, BHRN conducted a monitoring exercise with the following results:

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.