UN says Facebook has not shared 'evidence' of Myanmar crime

Aljazeera
11th August 2020

UN investigators say Facebook played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled the violence against Rohingya.

Some 750,000 Rohingya were forcibly displaced from their homes in Myanmar and crossed the border into Bangladesh [File: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of "serious international crimes", despite promising to work with investigators looking into abuses in the country including against the majority-Muslim Rohingya.

Will cases brought against Myanmar deliver justice to Rohingya?

Aljazeera
Mia Swart

19 November 2019

Genocide case filed at ICJ and Suu Kyi named in lawsuit in Argentina while ICC set to investigate Rohingya crimes.

Thousands of Rohingya have been killed and more than 740,000 have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017 [Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters]

Last week, three separate cases were filed against Myanmar for atrocities against Rohingya people in the first international legal attempts to bring justice to the persecuted Muslim minority.

The Gambia brought a genocide case against Myanmar on November 11 in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), urging the United Nations court to order measures to immediately stop atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people.

Campaigners target firms doing business with Myanmar's military

Aljzeera
by Joshua Carroll
March 28' 2019
 

Facebook and Western Union are among the most recognisable names on 'dirty list' distributed by human rights activists.

Myanmar's military has been accused of 'genocidal intent' in its crackdown against the Rohingya [Ye Aung Thu/AP]

Yangon, Myanmar - Sprinklers whirled as workers swept leaves and pushed lawn mowers on a recent sun-baked afternoon at the Okkala Golf Resort in Myanmar's main city.

As he steered a golf buggy between the fairways, the caddy master gestured to a man teeing off nearby who he said was a local movie star.

Asylum In America

Aljazeera 
14 Mar 2019

We follow the journey of two refugees from a detention centre on Manus Island to their new homes in the US and Canada.

They left their homelands seeking sanctuary but found themselves being held on a tiny Pacific island. Now, after years on Manus Island, they are forging new lives in North America.

101 East follows the remarkable journey of two refugees - Amir and Imran - as they start new lives on the other side of the world.

UN seeks $920m to support Rohingya refugees in 2019

AL JAZEERA
15th February 2019

More than half the money is earmarked for critical aid including food, water, sanitation and shelter.

Rohingya refugee children at the Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

The United Nations, aid agencies and NGO partners have said they need $920 million this year to support more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees who fled their homes in Myanmar in the wake of a brutal military crackdown in 2017 and are now living in sprawling camps in Bangladesh.

( 06.08.2018 ) HRW: Rohingya must be moved to safer areas in Cox's Bazar ( AJ )

HRW: Rohingya must be moved to safer areas in Cox's Bazar 

Rights group calls on Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees at risk from landslides and floods during monsoon rains.

by Linah Alsaafin

 

   The UN estimates 200,000 Rohingya are at risk of floods and landslides [Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - Rohingya refugees living in a severely overcrowded mega camp should be relocated by the Bangladeshi government to safer areas, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.

( 12.11.2017 ) ဗမာစစ္တပ္ရဲ့ ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာ ၾကမ္း ၾကဳတ္မႈေတြရဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းအခ်ဳိ႕ပါ။( AJ )

ဗမာစစ္တပ္ရဲ့ ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္မႈေတြရဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းအခ်ဳိ႕ပါ။ဗမာစစ္သားေတြ က ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ကေလးငယ္ေတြကုိ ဓါးနဲ႔ခုတ္သတ္တာ၊ အရွင္လတ္လတ္မီးရႈိ႕တာ၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးေတြကုိ အုပ္စုဖြဲ႔ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္ၿပီး မီးရႈိ႕သတ္ခဲ့တာေတြ အားလုံး ထြက္ဆုိထားၾကတယ္။
   Credit ;101 East - Al Jazeera
 

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ဗမာစစ္တပ္ရဲ့ ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္မႈေတြရဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းအခ်ဳိ႕ပါ။ ဗမာစစ္သားေတြက ရုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ကေလးငယ္ေတြကုိ ဓါးနဲ႔ခုတ္သတ္တာ၊ အရွင္လတ္လတ္မီးရႈိ႕တာ၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးေတြ ကုိ အုပ္စုဖြဲ႔ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္ၿပီး...