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Ma Ba Tha-linked monks target mosques and Muslim religious observances in Yangon and Mandalay.
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LONDON, 23 September 2026 – The Myanmar military junta should immediately unseal prayer spaces at the historic Miba Zay Mosque in Mandalay and end discriminatory restrictions on Muslim worship and mosque reconstruction, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. Since August 2026, Buddhist nationalist monks linked to the Buddha Dhamma Charity Foundation, formerly known as Ma Ba Tha, have targeted mosques, mosque renovations, and Muslim religious observances in Yangon and Mandalay. Junta officials have subsequently ordered construction work dismantled, demolished renovation work, sealed Muslim prayer spaces, and restricted worship.
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(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.
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London, 30 April 2026 - Online hate speech targeting Muslims, Rohingya, and women intensified across Myanmar's social media landscape in 2025, fueled by military-backed nationalist networks and amplified by platforms with weak enforcement, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. A new report by BHRN documents 943 instances of hate speech recorded on Telegram, Facebook, and TikTok over the course of the year, finding no sustained decline in prevalence and a marked escalation in the severity and reach of content targeting ethnic and religious minorities.
“In 2025, BHRN documented 943 cases of hate speech targeting Muslims, Rohingya, and women in Myanmar," said Kyaw Win, Executive Director of the Burma Human Rights Network. “Identifiable actors are running coordinated campaigns on Telegram, TikTok, and Facebook, and the platforms are doing almost nothing to stop them. The international community watched hate speech enable genocide in Myanmar in 2017. Governments serious about preventing atrocity crimes in Myanmar need to treat platform accountability as part of that agenda.”
