As anti-junta forces reportedly captured a strategic military base in southern Myanmar, a photo surfaced in Burmese posts that falsely claimed it showed a foreign woman helping rebels loot pagodas in the battlefield. The picture was actually taken in a Ukrainian town damaged by heavy Russian attacks.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military seized power in February 2021 in a coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Facebook post says the photo was taken on August 21 in Lat Khat Taung, a hilltop military base in Myanmar's southern Karen state which wasThe Burmese-language post says:"It's pretty suspicious this symbol has shown up in Myanmar which stands by the side of Russia", in an apparent reference to a Ukraine flag on the woman's t-shirt.
"They are using pagodas as their cover. They are going to take treasures from our pagodas to Ukraine."Screenshot of the false post taken on September 5, 2023
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