A Facebook account named Ayeyarwady May posted a claim that the junta was conducting airstrikes to target Zhapian businesses linked to the KNU. The post included three photos showing Zhapian workers gathered near the Thaungyin (Moei) River, which serves as the natural border between Thailand and Myanmar.
Link 1 – https://archive.ph/3JmtX
The same information was also shared on a pro-junta Telegram channel, where it garnered over 3,000 views and around 100 reactions.
Link 2 – https://archive.ph/BxJH8
The Karen Information Center (KIC), a member of the Myanmar Fact-Checking Network (MFCN), investigated the claim and found it to be completely false and fabricated.
Fact-checking
A reverse image search of the three photos shared by the social media accounts spreading the misinformation revealed that the people depicted were actually Zhapian workers who had fled to the Thaungyi River due to the conflict caused by the junta’s offensive against resistance forces. They were stranded there because Thai authorities had not yet permitted them to cross the border.
The images were originally published by a Thai news outlet and circulated on social media around 10:00 a.m. on November 27.
Amarin News- https://tinyurl.com/2w8ysc7m
Local media have reported that Zhapian workers who fled the junta’s offensive and were unable to cross into Thailand remain stranded on the Thaungyi River.
Than Lwin Times- https://tinyurl.com/4eca396m
Network Media Group – https://tinyurl.com/45azxar5
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