Meta’s new content policies risk fueling more mass violence and genocide

AMNESTY
International
17 February 2025 

By Pat de Brún, Head of Big Tech Accountability at Amnesty International and Maung Sawyeddollah, the founder and Executive Director of the Rohingya Students’ Network.

Recent content policy announcements by Meta pose a grave threat to vulnerable communities globally and drastically increase the risk that the company will yet again contribute to mass violence and gross human rights abuses – just like it did in Myanmar in 2017. The company’s significant contribution to the atrocities suffered by the Rohingya people is the subject of a new whistleblower complaint that has just been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 

Argentinian Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Myanmar Officials Over Rohingya Atrocities

THE | DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
February 17, 2025

The Supreme Court of Argentina in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: ID 10811671

A court in Argentina on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military junta, for his role in alleged “genocide and crimes against humanity” against the Rohingya minority group.

To reckon with the Rohingya genocide, Min Aung Hlaing’s arrest is a critical start

almayadeen
Hannan Hussain
Source: Al Mayadeen English
18 Dec 2024

Given the unspeakable brutality, condemnation, and injustices directed toward Rohingya Muslims, a warrant against Hlaing is a bare minimum of what ought to follow. 

Min Aung Hlaing's arrest is a cretical start to reckon with the Rohingya genocide ( illustrated by Batoul Chamas )

Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s de-facto military ruler, was the commander in chief during the 2017 Rohingya genocide. It was under his watch that Rohingya Muslims were subject to a horrific ethnic cleansing campaign that entailed rape, mass murder, and demolition of villages. Scores of children were beaten to death, and mosques were targeted.

A new genocide being committed in Rakhine

daily obsever
Md Mustakim Ahmed
Published : Monday, 9 September, 2024 

Before the memory of the '2017 Rohingya genocide' fades, the world is regrettably witnessing a new wave of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people, one that is perhaps more vicious and brutal.

The military of Myanmar unleashed a ruthless offensive against the Rohingya people in 2017, sparking the most brutal wave of anti-Rohingya persecution. Subsequently, the head of the UN agency for human rights described the military's actions as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing," "acts of horrific barbarity," and an "acts of genocide." About a million Rohingya were compelled to escape to Bangladesh, a neighbor, as a result of the persecution.

In a study conducted in January 2018 with a total of 3,321 Rohingya refugee households in Cox's Bazar, a UN Fact-Finding Mission estimated that the military and the local Rakhine Buddhists had killed at least 25,000 Rohingya and committed gang rapes and other forms of sexual violence against 18,000 Rohingya women and girls. According to their estimates, 36,000 Rohingya were burned alive and 116,000 others were beaten, an atrocities unseen since 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The Bitter Fight Over the Meaning of ‘Genocide’

The New York Times Magazine
By Linda Kinstler
Aug. 20, 2024

Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan

Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself.

Linda Kinstler is a junior fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows and the author of “Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends.” She has written extensively about legal history and the politics of memory.

Rohingya ‘genocide intensifying’ as war rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine: BROUK

Al Jazeera
By Al Jazeera Staff
Published On 26 Jun 2024

Warning from rights group comes as fighting between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army traps Rohingya in the western state.

People can be seen on the Myanmar side of the border, during the continuing conflict in Rakhine State, in the Teknaf area of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on June 24, 2024 [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/ Reuters]

 

 A United Kingdom-based rights group has called for global action over what it called an “intensifying genocide” against Myanmar’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority as fighting between the Southeast Asian country’s military and a powerful ethnic armed group escalated in the western Rakhine State.

They left a trail of ash: decoding the Arakan Army’s arson attacks in the Rohingya heartland

THE STRATEGIST
13 Jun 2024
Nathan Ruser

The village of Maw Ni Bill (Oe Thei) being burnt by arson attack on May 18th.

 

In the late evening of Friday 17 May 2024, Rohingya neighbourhoods in the town of Buthidaung in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were disturbed by an ominously familiar sight. Armed gunmen had come to their doors and ordered them to leave before the gunmen set their houses alight. If they refused, they were told, they would be burnt with their house.

Who is the face of modern ethnic hatred?

Dhaka Tribune
Shafiur Rahman
Publish : 08 Jun 2024,

Is there a new contender in the race?

File image of Rohingya repatriation. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune

Who is the face of modern ethnic hatred? Figures like Netanyahu, Milosevic, Karadzic, and Min Aung Hlaing come to mind, but Twan Morn Naing is the latest contender. Not only is he the brother of Twan Myat Naing, the Commander-in-Chief of the Arakan Army and another voice of genocidal rhetoric, but Twan Morn Naing is carving his own path in the annals of hate.

The Rohingya in Myanmar face yet another genocide

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
May 29, 2024

The international community must act swiftly to prevent another genocide against the Rohingya (File/AFP)

 

The Rohingya have been described as the most persecuted minority in the world, as a result of decades of systematic discrimination and violence. Their plight has culminated in their current status as stateless refugees, predominantly residing in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Genocide Against Rohingya Is Intensifying, Warns Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK

Prograssive Voice of Myanmar
Author: Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
April 2nd, 2024

Press Release

                                    Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) today sounded the alarm, warning that the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya is intensifying. BROUK urged the UN Security Council to immediately take steps to enforce the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures order on Myanmar to protect the ‘extremely vulnerable’ Rohingya. The British government, as penholder on Myanmar at the United Nations (UN) Security Council, should urgently convene a meeting to discuss the growing crisis.

What is the future for the Rohingya in Arakan State?

DVB
By CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Guest contributor
Pacifist Farooq
March 11, 2024

Since the resumption of fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) on Nov. 13 after a year-long unofficial ceasefire, the Rohingya community has become more vulnerable than ever, compounding the already alarming humanitarian catastrophe in the region.

Where is India Heading to?

COUNTER CURRENTS.ORG
by Habib Siddiqui
24/02/2024

India is going through a phenomenal transformation politically, socially, and religiously. It is exciting. But it is also scary and quite different than the popular image of a Nehru-Gandhi’s India.

လူမျိုးသုဉ်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှု(Genocide)

ဖက်ဒရယ်ဂျာနယ်

လူမျိုးသုဉ်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှု(Genocide)
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်တပ်ဟာ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ‌တွေအပေါ် ရက်ရက်စက်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုတွေ၊ လက်စဖျောက် မှုတွေ၊ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် မိန်းကလေးတွေအပေါ်မှာ အုပ်စုလိုက် အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်တာတွေ အ ပါ အ၀င် လိင်ပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက်မှုတွေကို စနစ်တကျ လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

ကွဲပြားသည့်ရှုမြင်ပုံများကြားက ကမ္ဘာ့တရားရုံးရောက် မြန်မာ့အရေး

Frontier
MYANMAR
December 10, 2019 

လွန်မင်းမန် နှင့် အင်ဒရူးနာခမ်ဆန် ရေးသည်။ 

နိုဘယ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆုရှင် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် နယ်သာလန်နိုင်ငံ၊ သည်ဟိတ်ဂ်မြို့ ၌ အ ပြည် ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာတရားရုံးကြားနာပွဲများကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံကိုယ်စား ဦးဆောင်နေသည်။ ယင်းသည် မြန်မာနိုင် ငံ၏ ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာကို အဖတ်ဆယ်ခြင်းဖြစ်နိုင်သကဲ့သို့ ၎င်း၏ပုံရိပ်ကိုလည်း ပြန်လည် မွမ်း မံ ခြင်းဖြစ်နိုင် သည်ဖြစ်ရာ နိုင်ငံတကာသုံးသပ်သူများနှင့် ပြည်တွင်းရှိ လူထုအကြားတွင် အမြင်အ မျိုးမျိုး ဖြစ်ပေါ် လျက် ရှိသည်။

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများကို မျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲကာ မွတ်စလင်နိုင်ငံတစ်ခုဖြစ်သည့် ဂမ်ဘီယာနိုင်ငံက အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ အစ္စလာမ်မစ်ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက် ရေးအဖွဲ့ကိုယ်စား နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၁၁ ရက်က အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာတရားရုံးတွင် မြန်မာကို တရားစွဲဆိုခဲ့သည်။

Myanmar’s shadow civilian govt apologizes to Rohingya on 6th anniversary of genocide

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
September 02, 2023 

Rohingya refugees walk at Balukhali Refugee Camp in Bangladesh. (AP/File)

This week marks the sixth anniversary of the onslaught of ruthless violence, rape and genocide by the military in Myanmar against the Rohingya of all ages. The genocidal conduct of the regime forces compelled a staggering three-quarters of a million Rohingya, men, women and children, to flee to Bangladesh, clutching their meager possessions.

 

Facebook pursued in the High Court for complicity in Rohingya Genocide

ISLAM
Carl Arrindell

Two Dublin based law firms – KOD Lyons and Abbey Law, last week launched between them, 17 lawsuits in the Irish High Court, alleging that the social media platform Meta, should pay significant damages for its culpability in the genocide in Myanmar of Rohingya Muslims in 2017.

The 6th anniversary of the genocide on the Rohingya has been celebrated in some countries, including the Thailand-Myanmar border

Myanmar Pressphoto Agency (MPA)
by MPA CJ012
August 25, 2023

 Celebrating the 6th anniversary of the massacre of the Rohingya in some countries, including the Thai-Myanmar border https://mpapress.com/en/news/28651/

The genocide of the Rohingya in northern Rakhine State has already reached to 6 years anniversary on August 25 today, and the annual event has been held internationally, including at the Thai-Myanmar border and in Canada.

“The 6th anniversary of the genocide is according to specifications. Actually, it is more than 6 years. As far as we know, it has been systematically initiated since 1942. As far as we know now, China-Myanmar-Bangladesh is working together to repatriate the Rohingyas. The Rohingyas also want to be allowed to return home safely and with dignity. It is also known that they categorically denied that they would not return if they did not receive such things,” an official from the Myanmar Muslim Revolutionary Force (MMRF) told MPA.

Commemorating the 6th Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day – ROHINGYA Session

ZOOM Conference ( LIVE )
25-August 2023 Link : Here

Six years after Rohingya genocide, human rights activists call for action

Myanmar Now
Gavin Butler
August 21, 2023

Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, pray as they take part in a protest to mark the five year anniversary of their mass forced migration on August 25, 2022; this year marks the sixth (EPA-EFE/MONIRUL ALA

International advocacy group Human Rights Watch condemns UN Security Council inaction and humanitarian aid cuts for ‘leaving Rohingya in even more desperate straits’

စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုတွေ လူမျိုးတုန်းသတ်ဖြတ်မှုတွေ ဆက်တိုက် ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို ICC ဖမ်းဝရမ်း ထုတ်သင့် ပြီ

ရန်ကုန်ခေတ်သစ်မီဒီယာ
By Yangon Khit Thit News Agency
By လမ်းသစ်
August 11, 2023

တိုင်းပြည်ကို မတရား အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး ပြည်သူတွေအပေါ် ရက်ရက်စက်စက် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုအပါအဝင် မကောင်း မှုပေါင်း သောင်းခြောက်ထောင်မက ကျူးလွန်နေတဲ့ စစ်ခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်နဲ့ အပေါင်းအပါတွေ အ တွက် နိုင်ငံတကာခုံရုံးတွေကတဆင့် ကြီးလေးတဲ့ အပြစ်ဒဏ်တွေ တသီတတန်းကြီး ချမှတ်နိုင်ဖို့ ပြင်ဆင်ထား သင့်ပြီ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။