UN Fact-Finding Mission Recommends Suspension of International Dealings with Myanmar’s Military

RFA
2019-05-14

United Nations' Independent International Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar chairperson Marzuki Darusman presents the final report on alleged rights violations during a press conference on August 27, 2018 in Geneva.  

 

The government of Myanmar has again rejected U.N. calls for accountability in its handling of the ongoing Rohingya crisis after a statement by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Myanmar Tuesday urged the international community to cut off financial aid to Myanmar’s military.

Twitter Suspends Account of Top Myanmar General Over Hate Speech

Radio Free Asia
2019-05-16

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (L) presides over a meeting in Naypyidaw with military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (R) commemorating the third anniversary of the signing of Myanmar's nationwide cease-fire agreement, Oct. 15, 2018.
Handout/Myanmar State Counselor's Office/AFP

Myanmar’s top military leader, seen by rights groups as the architect of a bloody ethnic cleansing campaign that drove more than 700,000 Muslim Rohingya into Bangladesh in 2017, had had his Twitter account suspended, RFA has learned.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, accused by the United Nations of, among other things, genocide for the Rohingya campaign, had his @sgminaunghlaing account taken offline this week, nine months after his Facebook account was shuttered for hate speech against the ethnic minority.