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#MWFires

Fires continue to be used to destroy civilian property and entire villages in Myanmar, with devastating consequences for those that live there.

Below are 17 SERIOUS FIRE INCIDENTS added to the MW Fire Map in August 2022.

(THREAD) 👇 🚨Village burnt following clashes
☑️ Kale, Sagaing
☑️ 23.09851, 94.01889
☑️ 05 Aug 2022

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🔴How do we verify fire claims?
🟡Geolocation Walkthrough

On 29 August 2022, SGG News reported a fire in Taung Myo village, Sagaing.

The disturbing images led MW investigators to try to verify the report, starting with geolocating the footage.

THREAD👇 #OSINT #Geolocation

After initial assessment, it was possible to determine that several images showed the same location but were taken from a different angle.

When different images contain overlapping information, that can be a good place to start the geolocation work.

🔴 Lay Kay Kaw
🟡 Report out soon

Lay Kay Kaw (လေးကေ့ကော်) in Kayin (ကရင်) State, once designated a ‘town of peace’, has been the site of violent clashes between the Myanmar military and the Karen National Union (KNU), since December 2021.

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THREAD 👇 Instead of providing a site of refuge to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), returning refugees and KNU families, fighting in Lay Kay Kaw (လေးကေ့ကော်) has forced many residents to flee for their lives.

🚨BURNT BODIES
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17 claims involving the burning of victims or their bodies in Myanmar (July 2021 - August 2022).

This list is not exhaustive and includes some credible but unverified claims where further evidence is required.

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🔴 Burnt Bodies in Myanmar
🟡 Claim 1/17
Unverified media report

AUNGMYAYTHAZAN, Mandalay
27 March 2021

“Armed forces burnt a Mandalay resident alive”
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🚨Vehicle Burning
...can seem insignificant when compared to other reports of #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar.

But vehicles
+ give freedom of movement
+ transport goods
+ often most-valued possession

When they are burnt it often reveals important clues to what happened.

Thread👇 🚨Burnt vehicles
☑️Yinmarbin, Sagaing
☑️22.073197, 94.789316
☑️14 August 2022

A truck and motorcycles were burnt, following reports of a massacre in Yin Paung Taing village.

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🔥 Documenting fires in Myanmar
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Today we look at methods for documenting the burning of civilian structures.

There are several methods we can use to verify that a fire occurred, and then to map that damage.

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1/35 👇 Following reports of a village being burnt, the first thing that we try to do is verify the attack. For that we look for thermal anomaly detections from several satellites that orbit the globe twice per day. These are the VIIRS and Aqua/Terra Earth Observation satellites.

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