Description:
''The Tatmadaw True News Team
issued a statement yesterday
warning about fake news posted
by AA on social media and
websites.
According to the statement,
following attacks on four
police outposts at Ngamyinbaw,
Kyaungtaung, Goappi, and
Khahtila on 4 January, the AA
group continued to target police
stations, planted mines on the
Yangon-Sittway Union Road, sent
bullets in envelopes, and issued
death threats to heads of police
stations, administrators of wards
and villagers, and killed them in
attempts to harm the administrative
machinery and the rule of
law. It has been found that local
people are being subjected to intimidation
by AA, according to
the statement. The AA group is
taking advantage of this to carry
out attacks on security forces by
taking position in wards and villages,
according to the statement.
Besides, after the clash with
security forces, AA members
have been disguising themselves
as civilians and spread fake news,
and forcing villagers to spread
fake and fabricated information
and post it on social media and
websites to create misunderstanding
among people, according
to the statement.
Touching upon fake information
being spread on social media,
the statement cited a live broadcast
on Facebook by a woman
who identified herself as a writer
and provided fake information
about the killing of the head of the
Teinnyo Police Station in MraukU
Township at 7.30 p.m. on 23
March. Upon investigation, the
authorities found that the woman,
Nwe Tharki, had made the live
broadcast to intentionally create
a misunderstanding between the
Tatmadaw and the people, according
to the statement.
It was found that while the
woman was from Rakhine, she
was not residing in the state,
but in Lashio, according to the
statement. She could not be located
and a case has been lodged
against her at the local police station
in accordance with the law.
Separately, the Head of
Aukthakan Village has refuted
information that two women
were killed during firing by Tatmadaw
forces on 29 March at
the Teinnyo-Aukthakan Village
incident. His clarification on the
fake information was released on
29 and 30 March, according to the
statement.
The statement from the Tatmadaw
True News Team urged
local people not to believe the fake
news, information, and propaganda
spread by the AA after intimidating
people, and to inform the
authorities and security forces
about their actions in a timely
manner...''
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Ministry of Information via "The Global New Light of Myanmar"
Date of Publication:
2019-04-01
Date of entry:
2019-04-01
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
Category:
Geographic coverage:
- Rakhine State
Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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