Q: Do you have anything else you want to say to the readers? See more of Central Bank of Myanmar on Facebook. It’s hard to open a case at the police station since the culprit’s identity is hidden. As observed by the U.N. International Fact-Finding Mission (IFFM) on Myanmar in its September 2018 report , … An estimated 20 million of Myanmar’s 53 million people use Facebook, and it is synonymous with the internet for many of its users; Facebook is even pre-downloaded on most cellphones in Myanmar due to decisions made by the main telecoms providers in the country. You can file a complaint at the nearest police station for this type of swindling. It’s hard to find the perpetrator in this scenario. At that time, the Police Force was known as the Burma Police. One such anti-Rohingya account — Min Kha LuLin — was publicly active from November 2016 to August 19, 2017, prior to the ethnic cleansing in August and September 2017. Unfortunately, this happens often so people must learn to open Facebook accounts by themselves and how to change passwords. One Rohingya woman recounted that the Myanmar military killed her baby by throwing him into a fire on August 29, 2017 — a day after this meme was posted. The best way we can help is to guide them in setting up preventive measures. Starting in August 2017, between 10,000 and 25,000 Rohingya Muslims were killed and 700,000 fled; the United Nations described the situation as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Social media use was rife around the crisis — both as a means of inciting further violence against the Rohingya but also as a means of communication that avoided government censors within that same community. If sexual abuse is involved, then they may give the location of the scene of the incident if you request with sufficient proof. MYPOL works to assist the Myanmar Police Force in becoming a modern police agency centred on international best practices and respect for human rights. Another post on the same date shared a meme about ARSA using babies as human shields, in comparison to the Myanmar Army who are depicted as protecting babies; the accompanying text included the hashtag “#No_Rohingya_in_Myanmar.” Multiple surviving Rohingya Muslims have accused the Myanmar military of murdering and stabbing Rohingya babies during the August 2017 violence. The “Motherland security” page, sporting the logo of the Tatmadaw, had gained a total of 9,406 likes. This will make your account safer. For example, the page’s very first post, on August 28, 2017, shared graphic, violent images, including the corpses of children, who the post described in English as, “Two innocent kids brutally and inhumanly killed by barbaric Bingalis.” “Bengalis” is used by some in Myanmar, including the government, to describe the Rohingya in the attempt to portray the Rohingya as belonging in Bangladesh and not Myanmar. Your friends need to tag you in a post saying hackers are swindling them while masquerading as you. Kyaw Myint will be charged under article 171 of the Financial Institutions Law and is currently being investigated, said Police Col Kyaw Thiha, a spokesperson for the Myanmar Police Force. These posts — portraying all Rohingya as terrorists, denying that the Rohingya existed, and falsely casting the sectarian violence as one-sided — all occurred as the Myanmar military murdered and displaced the Rohingya in August and September 2017. They buy these accounts at cheap prices but may neglect to change the passwords. The British policing system was introduced in 1885, when the Union of Myanmar became a British Colony. A: This is blackmailing. We scrutinize the case to see if it’s a cybercrime. Nine of the removed accounts liked Myanmar military pages, including the page of the official MPF, which was not in the removed assets. See All. Posts. A: There are two types of extortion through Facebook. On June 25, 2017, the account posted a picture of an article with the headline “Bangladesh PM admits Rohingya Muslims are NOT from Burma but are illegals who ‘tarnish the country’s image,’” accompanying the photo with a terse “right.”. It’s usually someone close to them that comes reports to us. They run away to escape Bengali extremist terrorists attack.”. The Myanmar Police Force now investigates cases of stolen Facebook accounts used to extort money and discredit the original owners. What you should do is call 199 and ask to be put forward to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The account shared regular updates about the situation in Rakhine state from other pages. The MP made the remark in response to a media question about the case after the end of the meeting of Military and police patrol arrested 25 Burmese people for allegedly crossing the Thai-Myanmar border illegally to Kanchanaburi’s Muang district. Ultimately, however, the Anti Terrorist News page gained little traction, as it had only 30 likes by the time it was taken down, and its posts generally garnered only one or two likes and/or shares. Anti Terrorist News’ content demonized the Rohingya, mischaracterized the violence by denying that atrocities against the Rohingya took place, amplified the deaths of other ethnic groups at the hands of the Rohingya through graphic imagery, and dismissed the existence of the Rohingya in general. Police Colonel Nyunt Wai. What do people need to provide when reporting a case? The Myanmar Police Force’s official Facebook page is an outlier when compared to other countries: it has a staggering 1.3 million likes. The first type is where they hack your account and asks your friends for money. The case is important but we don’t know who the culprits are and we police can’t handle it effectively given the circumstances. Photo: Htan Phone, The Myanmar Police Force now investigates cases of stolen Facebook accounts used to extort money and discredit the original owners. As observed by the U.N. International Fact-Finding Mission (IFFM) on Myanmar in its September 2018 report , ⦠11,981 people follow this. Lack of significant open-source evidence highlights the responsibility social media platforms have to identify and moderate coordinated inauthentic activity, particularly when that activity incites violence along sectarian lines in a country with ongoing conflict and a history of ethnic repression. 146 membicarakan ini. If you want to open a case to us, you need take screenshots of the post, video, photo or comment that is damaging you and submit it to us as evidence. But they should remember their old accounts still has their friends in the list. Other posts spread conspiracy about Muslims in general. The list, released Sunday by the Myanmar Police Force, numbers 20 individuals and includes their photographs and personal information. For years before the 2017 ethnic cleansing, the Myanmar military used Facebook to stoke ethnic divides through anti-Rohingya propaganda and coordinated troll campaigns. At the press conference, the police also claimed the court’s release of detained driver Ko Aung Gyi was premature, as the investigation remains incomplete. Accounts removed as a part of this takedown shared the anti-Rohingya narratives seen in the pages. 146 membicarakan ini. The “Victoria” child rape case has laid bare the institutional failings of the Myanmar Police Force at a time when the government is also asking questions about the force’s conduct. People also fall prey to accounts on sale that have generated more than a hundred thousand likes or so. If necessary, we send it paired with the handphone from the witness with our remarks. Kanishk Karan is a Research Associate with the Digital Forensic Research Lab. AMSTERDAM (REUTERS) - Lawyers bringing a case before the World Court accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority have asked a US district court to order Facebook … A U.S. district court has been asked to order Facebook to release posts and communications of Myanmar military and police for a genocide case. Some culprits hand over a different phone, one that doesn’t have the information we need. Although a CrowdTangle analysis did not find any coordinated patterns in the pages’ engagement and likes, some posts from one page would be shared by another page. What you can do in this case is submit the handphone of someone the court can trust and contains the same evidence. In 2018 UN human rights investigators said that Facebook played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled violence in Myanmar. The other kind is where they befriend you through Facebook’s Messenger and ask you to save up money after gaining your trust. In February 2018 [â¦] Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Anti-Corruption Commission, Anti-Corruption Law, corruption, Myanmar Police Force, National League for ⦠Although the people behind this activity attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to members of the Myanmar Police Force. Among officials whose Facebook data is being sought is Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of Myanmar’s armed forces. “Motherland Security” and “ျမန္မာသတင္းအမွန္” were newer pages, created on April 6, 2019, and January 23, 2019, respectively. All actions are aimed at reaching an effective, efficient and accountable police service that is trusted by Myanmar’s many different communities. Many of … The Burma Police was reorganized as the People’s Police Force in 1964, and was reorganized again to the present set-up as the Myanmar Police Force on 1 st October, 1995. The Chinese government looks at the long term and immediately dismisses the two-party harmony… In the long run, it can be good for future generations.”. In contrast, “Anti Terrorist News” was created on August 28, 2017, two days after ARSA violently attacked the Myanmar military. They will eventually swindle that savings. Some people open new accounts and forget about the old one. They’ll ask your friends to transfer money and promise to repay later. The DFRLab’s analysis indicated that some of the assets actively inflamed anti-Rohingya sentiment during the critical period of June through September 2017 in Myanmar when tens of thousands of Rohingya were murdered and hundreds of thousands were displaced. All of the victims are indigenous ethnic group of Rakhine race villagers. Some destroy it by dropping it in water or smashing it apart. For years before the 2017 ethnic cleansing, the Myanmar military used Facebook to stoke ethnic divides through anti-Rohingya propaganda and coordinated troll campaigns. The accused in a sensational child rape case in Myanmar who was freed by the court in December for lack of evidence sued the police for wrongful detention, his lawyer said on December 8. By SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER. The third page, ျမန္မာသတင္းအမွန္, also wrote a lot of news-like posts regarding terrorists and security concerns. Community See All. Eight accounts featured military imagery in their profile — either through flags and insignias from the Military Police Force, Myanmar Army, and the specific Army flag “Badge of the Western Command” — or through uploaded images of military forces. In early June, Gambia initiated discovery proceedings before the United States D.C. district court to compel Facebook to provide data on “suspended or terminated” Facebook accounts of Myanmar military institutions and personnel. The page linked to a low effort off-platform website whose sole page depicts graphic photos of corpses that it claims are Hindus killed by “Bengali extremists,” continuing the narrative that the sectarian violence is one-sided and can be attributed to the Rohingya. Although behavior that points to the obfuscation of an identity is one potential sign of inauthentic activity, in and of itself it is not a conclusive indicator of an inauthentic account. Aung Kyaw Myo, also known as Aung Gyi, was detained for several months by the police last year on suspicion of raping a three-year-old girl in a nursery school in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw. At that time, the Police Force was known as the Burma Police. A: They have their 22 Community Standards. Many of ⦠The following is an interview with Police Colonel Nyunt Wai, head of the Cyber Crime Department, on this new service. or. Unlike many other countries, which have civilian control of police forces, the Myanmar Police Force operates under the military, along with the Myanmar Army, Navy, and Air Force. MYANMAR POLICE FORCE is recruiting more women as it makes gradual progress towards a government goal set in 2014 of having women officers comprise 25 percent of its ranks by 2030. Myanmar Police Force was founded in 1889 under the colonial rule as Burma Military Police, Burma Civil Police and Rangoon Town Police. The DFRLab examined 18 assets that Facebook stated were operated by members of the MPF. All rights reserved by GNLM. 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Facebook took down at least three pages it attributed to members of the MPF: “Motherland security,” “Anti Terrorist News,” and “ျမန္မာသတင္းအမွန္,” whose unique handle is “TrueNewsOfMM.”. Remember to put in two factor authentication codes and monitor login activities regularly. Central Bank of Myanmar. The Page admins and account owners shared content primarily in Burmese about local news and events such as the successes of the national police and military, stories about police officers providing assistance to local families, arrests and police raids, criticism of the Arakan Army and anti-Rohingya content. The DFRLab’s open source analysis, however, was not able to confirm Facebook’s assessment of inauthentic behavior, nor could it invalidate that same assessment. The DFRLab previously examined inauthentic Facebook assets from a Burmese telecommunications company partially owned by the Myanmar military. Hackers will try every means to get into those old accounts and contact your friends through Messenger. This is sent to court. In Indonesia — which has five times the population of Myanmar and 6.5 times the number of active Facebook users — the national police force Facebook page has only 920,000 likes. Q: There have also been cases of the Facebook accounts of famous being held for ransom. A: Police stations and investigators ask CID for remarks. With Covid-19 cases rising by more than 1,000 each day in the neighbouring country, some Thais fear that migrants crossing the border illegally, avoiding the mandatory 14 day quarantine, could potentially spread the virus to people in Thailand. Sometimes we can’t take down the account so we have to contact the Facebook Team and request them to shut down that account. On April 30, 2020, Facebook took down a network of pages and accounts the company attributed to members of the Myanmar Police Force (MPF) for coordinated inauthentic behavior. A U.S. district court has been asked to order Facebook to release posts and communications of Myanmar military and police for a genocide case. We’ve found that this has less to do with the expertise of the hacker and more due to carelessness on the part of the owners. One image falsely stated that “HRW [Human Rights Watch] is announcing worng [sic] news on Rakhine State, Myanmar. Forgot account? Myanmar denies genocide and says its armed forces were conducting legitimate operations against militants who attacked police posts. But the Cyber Crime Department needs to provide their remarks to the court in order for evidence to be considered valid. Now, swindling online savings began around 2018 and we have handled about 80 cases to date. If the reported content falls into one of those standards then then take down that account. And how many reports have there been so far? In some cases, the culprit doesn’t hand over the evidence but signs a confession instead. On Dec. 19, the Myanmar Police Force revealed detailed information about the rape victim’s family both during a live-streamed press conference and on their Facebook page, “Ye Zarni”. A portion of these assets inflamed anti-Rohingya sentiment by presenting the Rohingya as terrorists, denying that atrocities against the Rohingya took place, amplifying reports of violence by the Rohingya on other groups, and dismissing the existence of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Copyright © 2019. Q: Can you tell us how the Myanmar Police Force addresses Facebook identity theft? This is worrying because Facebook is an overwhelming force in Myanmar. In terms of coordination, several of the accounts liked photos on other assets in the set. In an interview, Aung Naing Soe says he was approached by a member of Special Branch, a notorious intelligence unit of the Myanmar Police Force, who questioned him … The composite team of Tatmadaw, Police and Mogok township administrative staff are also conducting inspections at four points in Mogok to augment the six patrol teams. YANGONâ Ko Aung Gyi, who was falsely accused of raping a toddler at a private school in Naypyitaw last year, has sued the Myanmar Police Force for wrongfully detaining him for more than six months. MYPOL works to assist the Myanmar Police Force in becoming a modern police agency centred on international best practices and respect for human rights. Some people may delete evidence from their accounts so, we track down the material on YouTube and in accounts that were shared to. The following is an interview with Police Colonel Nyunt Wai, head of the Cyber Crime Department, on this new service. 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