Could Facebook Help To Establish The Burmese Government’s Intent To Commit Genocide Against The Rohingya Muslims?

Forbes
Ewelina U. Ochab
Policy
Contributor

On June 8, 2020, The Gambia filed an application for discovery with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The application asks the Court to compel Facebook to provide information related to the personal Facebook accounts of Myanmar officials. The information that The Gambia seeks is to be used in an action brought by The Gambia against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, The Netherlands. 

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Military and Government jointly decide to send delegation led by Suu Kyi in ICJ case

Mizzima
23 November 2019

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C). Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

A military spokesman said that Myanmar government and military will jointly handle the case against the country at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) by using a team led by State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

“The State Counsellor, in her capacity as Union Minister of Foreign Affairs, will lead a team to The Hague, Netherlands, to defend the national interests of Myanmar at the ICJ,” the Myanmar government said in a press release.

Govt has failed diplomatically on Rohingya issue: BNP

bdnews24.com
Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 23 Aug 2019

Senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi says the government has diplomatically failed to repatriate forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar from Bangladesh.

He made the remarks at an event in Dhaka on Friday, a day after a second attempt to repatriate the Rohingyas fell flat following first attempt made in November last year.

BNP blames govt for failure to repatriate Rohingyas

daily Sun
UNB
23rd August, 2019

BNP on Friday alleged that the government has diplomatically failed to initiate the repartition of Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar.

“The government couldn’t do anything to start the repatriation of Rohingyas. It's been a long time since they (Rohingyas) came here, but you (govt) couldn't still send any of them,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. He further said, “It’s an utter failure. You’ve failed diplomatically to send the Rohingyas back.”

‘Existence of Rohingya at risk if children are not educated’

The Daily Star  
Friday, "April 12, 2019"

Former prime minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt has expressed her concern that a whole generation of Rohingyas could be lost if the absence of Rohingya refugee children in the education system is continued.

She made the remarks while visiting the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar on April 6 and 7, a press release of Save the Children said today.