Showing posts with label Myanmar Bloodthirsty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Myanmar Bloodthirsty. Show all posts

Monday, March 15, 2021

Inside Myanmar's bloodthirsty 'TikTok soldiers' gunning down their peers

The Telegraph
ByNicola Smith, 
ASIA CORRESPONDENT 
YANGON and Verity Bowman
13 March 2021 
Young soldiers take to TikTok in threatening videos

The young soldiers in the video clip line the benches of their truck with machetes tucked under their arms. Some crowd over a single mobile phone, cigarette in hand. Others lean on their hoe. “We don’t hold a gun any more," a line of Burmese script reads underneath, in reference to the blunt farm tools littered on the bed of the vehicle.

The message is clear: we don't just shoot, we bury too.

In another video a young soldier reaches for a machine gun, pulls it towards his face and kisses it before fixing his gaze at his smartphone camera with a tender smile. Meanwhile, a separate clip shows a young soldier drawing his fingers across his throat menacingly for his social media followers.