‘Fuelling Rohingya genocide’: Argentina court asks Facebook to clarify role

An Argentinian court has asked the social media giant Facebook to clarify its role in "fuelling the ongoing genocide against Rohingya people and to share evidence crucial to holding the Myanmar military to account". The order was issued on February 24 but it was recently shared with Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK). Citing the order, BROUK yesterday said the Federal Court in Buenos Aires requested Facebook to share evidence of anti-Rohingya hate speech on its platform, including from accounts linked to senior Myanmar military officials. The move is part of the universal jurisdiction case on the Rohingya genocide that was opened in Argentina last year after a petition from BROUK. "For years, Facebook has put profit before the lives of the Rohingya people. When military forces rampaged through Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, Facebook turned a blind eye to the hatred that was being spewed on its own platform," said BROUK President Tun Khin. "This order by the Argentinian judiciary is a crucial step towards accountability for a genocide that is still going on today. Facebook must come clean about what evidence it has gathered and what steps it has taken to ensure that its platform will never again be used to facilitate some of the worst crimes known to humanity." In 2016 and 2017, the Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) launched vicious operations in Rakhine State which killed thousands of Rohingya women, men and children, and drove close to 800,000 to flee into Bangladesh, BROUK said.

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