It is not just the women fighting and protesting against the Myanmar junta who are suffering, the wives of junta soldiers have also suffered and been subjected to bad treatment. Many soldiers’ wives live with them on army bases, which leaves them at the mercy of the military authorities and despite not signing up to serve in the army themselves they still have to, like their husbands, obey army officers’ orders.
The mission of the social media drive, part of the military's broader propaganda operations, is to reportedly spread the junta's view among the population, as well as to monitor dissenters and attack them online as traitors.
As Myanmar's military seeks to put down protest on the streets, a parallel battle is playing out on social media, with the junta using fake accounts to denounce opponents and press its message that it seized power to save the nation from election fraud, eight people with knowledge of the tactics said.