Dozens of Facebook accounts promote blatant Arakan Army propaganda. Local insurgents on the Burmese side of the border told The Irrawaddy that the weapons were likely being smuggled for the Arakan Army because "they pay good prices". [22], In April 2015, the AA clashed with the Myanmar Army in Kyauktaw Township of Rakhine State and Paletwa Township of Chin State. (Much of the content is in English, which is likely intended to catch the attention of the international community.) “The Arakan Army is committing a violent war crime by attacking a police outpost that provides security for local ethnic villages.” Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Join Facebook to connect with Arakan Ar My and others you may know. Arakan Army Free Myanmar Civilian After Four Months in Captivity. [43] On the same day, AA insurgents managed to conquer the front line commanding post of Rakhine State's Gwa Township-based No. In 2018, Facebook commissioned an independent assessment that connected specific posts to offline violence. China wants an unpopular billion-dollar project restarted, but it has walked a fine line around the coup. Photographs shared on the pages were later used in the media, raising international awareness of the situation. YANGON—A tactical frontline base of the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) was raided and no less than 30 soldiers were killed by Arakan Army (AA) rebels in rural Mrauk-U Township, in northern Rakhine State, at dawn on Wednesday, Arakan Army spokesperson U Khine Thukha told The Irrawaddy. [42], On 9 March 2019, around 60 AA insurgents launched an evening attack on Yoe-ta-yoke Police Station. To secure Beijing’s economic and regional interests, a reliable democratic government is better than an unpredictable and expansionist military junta. Facing an online insurgency, the social network holds the high ground. Fighting continued for weeks and peaked in the second week of March when the Arakan Army claimed it had captured 36 soldiers, including a battalion commander. Join Facebook to connect with Ãrãkãñ ÂrMý Ââ and others you may know. [47], On 26 October 2019, AA soldiers captured a ferry on the Mayu River between Sittwe to Buthidaung Township and abducted a group 58 passengers, which included soldiers, police officers and government workers. Myanmar's Anti-Terrorism Central Committee designates Arakan Army as a terrorist group under the country's counter-terrorism law. An official projection of over 6 percent growth in the coming year is below economist estimates as the rest of the world still reels from the COVID-19 pandemic. Share on facebook. The Arakan Army released the men — Khaing Aung Soe Than, the ALP joint-secretary, ALP Liaison Office staffer Khaing Htay, Khaing Myo Zan, Khaing Moezat, and Khaing Hein Zaw from the Rakhine Community Health Workers Association — on August 18. Pentru a lua legătura cu Than, înscrie-te pe Facebook astăzi. In that light, Facebook’s failure to meaningfully enforce its own decision is yet another abnegation of responsibility for the ways in which its platform can be used in conflict zones. There are a number of straightforward steps Facebook could take to prevent the spread of propaganda by the banned armed groups in Myanmar. In the third quarter of 2018, 63 percent of the hate speech content that it removed in Myanmar was automatically detected, according to the Facebook spokesperson. [23] On 27 August 2015, there was a clash between the AA and Bangladesh border guard forces, with both sides opening fire near the Boro Modak area of Thanci in the Bandarban district, near the shared Burma-Bangladesh border. According to the Myanmar Peace Monitor, the AA had more than 1,500 troops in 2014,[11] including personnel stationed in the Rakhine State near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh. [27], Following clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Burmese security forces in northern Rakhine State in October 2016, the Arakan Army released a press statement, calling the perpetrators (the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army) "savage Bengali Muslim terrorists" and the violence a "rampage of the Bengali Islamic fundamentalist militants in northern Arakan. As a result, they took up arms against the Myanmar Army in support of the KIA. In February, Facebook banned accounts connected to four armed groups that had allegedly committed violence against civilians in Myanmar. From Afghanistan to China, the new administration seems likely to hold on to some ideas from the previous one. But the company has faced significant international criticism for failing to police hate speech against the Rohingya Muslim minority being spread on its platform. Liity Facebookiin ja pidä yhteyttä käyttäjän Âřãkâñ Ãřmý ja muiden tuttujesi kanssa. The Arakan Army (AA) militant group and its political arm, the United League of Arakan (ULA), in Rakhine state has been officially designated as … The groups responsible for creating and promoting online hate speech are highly adept with digital technology and use the platforms to exploit preexisting divisions. Every house has the Arakanese flag. By Moe Myint 28 August 2019 . Ãrãkäñ Ârmy, Facebook पर है. The Arakan Army (AA) said it seized an Israeli-made military-grade Skylark l-LEX unmanned aircraft belonging to Myanmar’s military. Combating hate speech and violence on its platforms is a contest that Facebook can win—but it needs new strategies. [29], On 21 December 2018, the Myanmar Army declared a four-month unilateral ceasefire in five conflict areas, saying it would hold talks with non-signatories of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) during the ceasefire period. The fighting prompted 5,000 civilians to flee from their homes and to take shelter in monasteries and communal areas across the region, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Conectează-te "[18], The Arakan Army (AA) was founded on 10 April 2009 along with its political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA), in what it describes as its "temporary headquarters" in Laiza, Kachin State. [48], On 6 February 2020, the Arakan Army attacked an outpost of the Tatmadaw on a bank of Kaladan River in Chin State. The ULA/AA wish this Christmas time brings fulfilment and peace to all Christians around the world and all Christians in Arakan and terri... ULA / AA Dec 13, 2020 Many others were injured. Join Facebook to connect with Arakan Hla Thain and others you may know. The company plans to launch a digital literacy program in Myanmar later this year, part of a regional effort that began with a program in Singapore in March. Its Silicon Valley leadership isn’t prepared to play peacekeeper in the fight for narrative control in the far reaches of Myanmar or beyond. In February 2015, AA fought alongside the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), an ethnic armed group, and its ally the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in their conflict with the Myanmar Army. Arakan Armykoaung is on Facebook. The Arakan Army (AA), which is battling government troops in the region, said in a statement posted online on Monday the three candidates would be … [30][31], On 4 January 2019, around 300 members of the Arakan Army launched pre-dawn attacks on four border police outposts—Kyaung Taung, Nga Myin Taw, Ka Htee La and Kone Myint—in northern Buthidaung Township. View the profiles of people named Arakan Army S. Join Facebook to connect with Arakan Army S and others you may know. In May, accounts linked to the Arakan Army shared unfolding developments in Kyauktan village, where the Tatmadaw held dozens of men and boys in a school for days on suspicion of being insurgents. Furthermore, the Arakan Army pages are often branded clearly with the group’s symbol or photos of its leader or of fighters in uniform. Facebook has grown tremendously in Myanmar, with an estimated 20 million users out of 53 million citizens. Myanmar: Displacement due to Myanmar Armed Forces & Arakan Army conflict in Rakhine and Chin States (As of 16 January 2021) Format Map Source. The changes are an improvement. That brought the slaughter (6,700 dead in 2017 alone, 730 of them under five years old) down upon them. More than a dozen ethnic armed groups are fighting for autonomy against Myanmar’s national army, known as the Tatmadaw. In 2014, the AA started a settlement in Rakhine State near the border with Bangladesh and another near the border of Thai-Myanmar with which it has become much stronger and its combat abilities have been positively impacted.[20]. The Arakan Army, founded in 2009 by a few ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, has grown in strength to an estimated membership of 7,000. Arakan Army Denies Drug Charge, Silent On Arms Import, Arakan Army Separatists Sound Bugle For Final Charge, Myanmar In Rare Attack Against China For 'Support To Terror', Campaign at the China–Burma border (1960–1961), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arakan_Army&oldid=1010319437, Paramilitary organisations based in Myanmar, Organizations designated as terrorist by Myanmar, Articles containing Burmese-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 March 2021, at 22:05. [46], On 22 September 2019, fighting broke out near Taunggyi Village in Myebon Township, as the ceasefire expired. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. The Arakan Army (Burmese: ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော်; abbreviated AA) is a Rakhine armed group in Myanmar (Burma) based on Kachin State, founded on 10 April 2009. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2018, Myanmar civil society groups highlighted the social media company’s initial lack of Burmese-language speakers as a key factor in its ineffective response to hate speech. The failure to detect and remove months-old pages with English-language names such as “We Love Arakan Army” suggests that Facebook isn’t proactively enforcing its own ban. Ãrãkãñ ÂrMý Ââ is on Facebook. Some activists criticized Facebook’s decision to ban the Arakan Army and its allies, noting that the company did not consult with Myanmar civil society and had failed to apply its standards consistently. “It is essential that they do so—in particular ahead of the [country’s] 2020 general elections.”. Salai Aung Soe. Photo: YouTube. The difficulty of the challenge facing Facebook should not be understated. A spokesman for Myanmar's military placed the blame of the attack on the Arakan Army , an ethnic armed group seeking greater autonomy of the restive Rakhine state. 31 Police Security Unit at 10 pm. The proliferation of Arakan Army propaganda on Facebook’s platform demonstrates a deeper issue: a failure to identify and remove pages explicitly banned by Facebook. This is the same Arakan [Rakhine] state flag which is recognized by the government. Digital literacy programs are unlikely to prevent the spread of hate speech in Myanmar. Established on April 10, 2009 Arakan Army led by Arakan’s younger generations, has become one of the most credibility army forces in Burma fighting for self-determination, national equality, justice and freedom. [19], Following training, the group had planned to return to Arakan State and fight for self-determination; however, with the outbreak of fighting in Kachin State in June 2011, they were unable to return. These are the two biggest and strongest ethnic armed organisations based along Myanmar’s bor… On 30 May 2020 the Arakan Army released a statement demanding the immediate withdrawal of Burmese Government administration and Burmese armed forces from Arakan. Arakan Army rebel soldiers at an undisclosed location. According to a press release by the Arakan Army, 11 personnel, including four military engineers, were captured and 16 backhoe excavators, one Toyota car, a dump truck, and 60 mm and 80 mm mortars were confiscated. The tech company sought to prevent the groups from using its platform “to further inflame tensions on the ground.” Within days, it was clear that Facebook had failed. The groups banned by Facebook—the Arakan Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Kachin Independence Army, and the Taang National Liberation Army—are united in a coalition, the Northern Alliance. However, the Western Command (stationed in Chin State and Rakhine State) was notably excluded from the unilateral ceasefire announcement and an increase in clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army was reported. Share on twitter ... Myanmar’s army said the mass expulsion was justified in a campaign to stamp out Rohingya militants known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). Facebook has previously banned some individual Myanmar government figures, including high-ranking leaders of the Tatmadaw. / Salai Ai Lin / Facebook . In exile, the Arakan Army built up its forces, which now number around 7,000. There is genuine support for the Arakan Army among some parts of the ethnic Rakhine community, and the ban could violate the right to freedom of political expression. David Kaye, the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of expression, has highlighted Facebook’s inconsistent enforcement of its own rules as one reason why greater regulation of the social media giant is needed, and why using antitrust law to break them up should be an option on the table. The rebel group then detained the three young people who purportedly came to look for the drone. [36][37] Following the attacks, the Office of the President of Myanmar held a high-level meeting on national security in the capital Naypyidaw on 7 January 2019, and instructed the Defense Ministry to increase troop deployments in the areas that were attacked and to use aircraft if necessary. A video has been viewed tens of thousands times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows an attack on Myanmar's military vehicles by the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group in Rakhine State, western Myanmar. 563 Light Infantry Battalion under the supervision of Light Infantry Division No. Facebook’s technology recognizes individuals’ faces in photos even if they are not tagged. [44], On 9 April 2019, around 200 AA insurgents attacked the No. The proliferation of Arakan Army propaganda on Facebook’s platform demonstrates a deeper issue: a failure to identify and remove pages explicitly banned by Facebook. Facebook shuts down Myanmar army 'True News' page Security forces in the country have steadily increased violence against a massive and largely peaceful civil disobedience campaign demanding the return of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Arakan Army Deputy Commander Nyo Tun Aung instructs a class of recruits in emergency medical treatment. Than Naing ( Arakan Army AA ️) este pe Facebook. These phrases would need to be frequently checked and, if necessary, revised by a human moderator, as groups attempting to avoid automated moderation often switch to code words and phrases, something that may be readily apparent to a human but missed by an algorithm. [28], In November 2017, the group was involved in heavy clashes with the Tatmadaw in Chin State, in which 11 Tatmadaw soldiers were killed. A rescue attempt by the Tatmadaw using a helicopter resulted in exchange of gunfire, killing several of the hostages. [32] Thirteen members of the Border Guard Police (BGP) were killed and nine others were injured,[33][34][35] whilst 40 firearms and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition were looted. In the past year, Facebook says it has hired 100 moderators who speak Burmese, including some with knowledge of regional dialects. “Civilians are bearing the brunt of the latest violence in Rakhine,” said Laura Haigh, a Myanmar researcher for Amnesty. If it is not doing enough to respond to the narrative battle being fought across its platform in Myanmar, where the company has faced sustained criticism, it raises serious questions about what may be happening in other, less high-profile cases—and what kind of crisis it will take to force Facebook to reckon with the power it wields. As the Arakan Army pages show, a vast amount of banned content should be relatively simple to detect. Security analyst David Scott Mathieson observes, "the Arakan Army has expanded to a force of [several thousand] soldiers" and "the scale and geographic reach of their activities have steadily grown." One page regularly shares footage from conflict zones and training camps. The Tatmadaw retaliated with fighter jets, bombing AA positions until 6 am the next day. 03/26/2020 Myanmar (International Christian Concern) – The Burmese government has officially designated the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic rebel group, as a terrorist organization on March 24.. The four are the Arakan Army, the Kachin Independence Army, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in Kokang, […] However, Facebook has banned the Arakan Army and its allies, believing the groups pose an unacceptable risk of violence. Moderation by Facebook that implicitly supports governments over marginalized civilian groups is not unique to Myanmar. A man uses Facebook on a mobile phone in Yangon on June 7, 2018. Arakan Hla Thain is on Facebook. A spokesman for the Arakan Army, denied responsibility. A U.N. report from its fact-finding mission last August called for Tatmadaw leaders to be investigated for crimes against humanity, including serious human rights violations and sexual violence perpetrated against ethnic Rakhine communities. There is evidence of abuses against civilians by both sides in the conflict, according to a report by Amnesty International. According to a leaked combat report, nine policemen were killed, two were injured, and a dozen weapons, including 10 BA-63 assault rifles, were stolen by the attackers. [50], On 23 June 2020, Thai authorities raided a house in the border town of Mae Sot (close to Kayin State), seizing a large stash of newly manufactured weapons originating from China. While international attention has often focused on the Tatmadaw’s abuses against the Rohingya in Rakhine, Myanmar’s army has also committed violence against ethnic Rakhine communities as it seeks to solidify its control over the region. As deaths shoot up, the country’s data blackout and new variant put the whole world at risk. Influence campaigns are not a black-and-white issue but a gray zone. Facebook could assign moderators to look for content that violates its policy proactively, rather than waiting for it to be reported or filtered. When it comes to moderating propaganda, however, it’s not clear that Facebook’s size as a company is the problem. "[6], According to the BBC, there is popular support for the Arakan Army in Mrauk U and a number of men from the town have recently joined the group. Elise Thomas is a freelance journalist and a researcher with the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Ãrãkäñ Ârmy और आपके अन्य परिचितों से जुड़ने के लिए Facebook में शामिल हों. The Arakan Army is also fighting for control of the narrative. “Facebook has so far failed to take effective action to counter the spread of hate speech and misinformation on its platform,” said Amnesty International’s Haigh. Facebook could also use its facial recognition technology to help flag potentially banned content. Facebook has banned four ethnic rebel armies in Myanmar and “all related praise, support and representation will be removed as soon as we become aware of it”, according to a statement issued by Facebook on February 5. The prevailing question about the AA is this: when will China intervene to stop the AA? The Rakhine State government issued a notice blocking non-governmental organisations and UN agencies, except for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Food Programme, from travelling to rural areas in these townships affected by the conflict. Many of the pages are linked to one another on the platform, making them even easier to locate. [39] Civilian casualties,[40] arbitrary detention of ethnic Rakhine villagers,[41] and military blockage of food aid and medical relief were also reported. Internal conflicts have simmered for decades in Myanmar. “[T]he military is becoming increasingly intolerant of reporting on violations in Rakhine.”. Facebook aims to become the world’s social network, which means that some part of its platform will always be a warzone. With many Rohingya gone, the AA has ramped up … Facebook could flag pages containing obvious phrases associated with the groups to be reviewed by a moderator. But most of its propaganda campaign runs across social media platforms. The Arakan Army—not to be confused with the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, another insurgent group—identifies itself as the legitimate representative of the Buddhist Rakhine people, the largest ethnic group in Rakhine state. "[17] The purpose of the AA, as stated by its second-in-command Brigadier General Nyo Twan Awng, is to "protect our Arakan people, and to establish peace, justice, freedom and development. The Arakan Army formed a decade ago, demanding self-governance, equality, and economic development in Rakhine State, which is one of Myanmar’s poorest. It’s a question with some legitimacy because the AA’s existence has been closely linked to groups with strong ties to China. The AA was created by the Kachin Independence Army at its headquarters at Laiza, on the Myanmar-China border, and its development has been fostered by the KIA and more recently the United Wa State Army. Biden was expected to revive the nuclear deal quickly—but as pro-Iran militias attack U.S. forces in Iraq and Washington strikes back in Syria, direct talks aren’t on the horizon. Individual profiles may represent real individuals or trolls, but in either case they are defying Facebook’s ban on “all related praise, support and representation” of the groups. As the world’s predominant social network, it is at the center of conflicts around the globe. [38], Myanmar Army soldiers from the 22nd Light Infantry Division, elements of the 66th and 99th Light Infantry Divisions, and battalions from the Western Command of the Tatmadaw were reportedly involved in the subsequent military offensive against the Arakan Army. The resources at the disposal of Facebook, which posted a revenue of $55.8 billion in 2018, dwarf those of the armed groups and even some governments.
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