Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'

Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'

Myanmar's military, that the highest United Nations human rights formal has accused of engaging in a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", has a verified Facebook page with 2.6m followers. The highest UN human rights formal denounced the military's actions as "clearly disproportionate" to the Arsa attack. But several Rohingya Facebook users complained to the Guardian that the censorship continued. Jafar Arakane, a Rohingya refugee based in Saudi Arabia, runs Arakan Times, a Rohingya society YouTube channel with an associated Facebook page. Through our Facebook page we reached tens of thousands of our viewers," Arakane said.

Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'

Facebook bans 'dangerous' Rohingya militant group

as well A Facebook spokesperson told that it wasn't demanded with the Gov. to bar the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), that remembers active on Twitter. | picture Credit: APFacebook told it has banned a Rohingya militant group from its site, designating it a 'dangerous organisation' as data on the deepening problem is muddied with claims, counter-claims and hate speech on social media. A Facebook spokesperson told AFP late on Wednesday that it wasn't demanded with the Gov. to bar the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), that remembers active on Twitter. Britain sent back 5 Myanmar army officers from a training session this week, "on account of the current situation in Rakhine", Myanmar's army told on Facebook late Wednesday. Rohingya are widely reviled in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are considered illegal 'Bengali' immigrants brought in from modern-day Bangladesh during English colonial rule.





Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'

Myanmar's military, that the highest United Nations human rights formal has accused of engaging in a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing", has a verified Facebook page with 2.6m followers. The highest UN human rights formal denounced the military's actions as "clearly disproportionate" to the Arsa attack. But several Rohingya Facebook users complained to the Guardian that the censorship continued. Jafar Arakane, a Rohingya refugee based in Saudi Arabia, runs Arakan Times, a Rohingya society YouTube channel with an associated Facebook page. Through our Facebook page we reached tens of thousands of our viewers," Arakane said.

Facebook bans Rohingya group's posts as minority faces 'ethnic cleansing'

according to A Facebook spokesperson told that it wasn't demanded with the Gov. to bar the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), that remembers active on Twitter. | picture Credit: APFacebook told it has banned a Rohingya militant group from its site, designating it a 'dangerous organisation' as data on the deepening problem is muddied with claims, counter-claims and hate speech on social media. A Facebook spokesperson told AFP late on Wednesday that it wasn't demanded with the Gov. to bar the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), that remembers active on Twitter. Britain sent back 5 Myanmar army officers from a training session this week, "on account of the current situation in Rakhine", Myanmar's army told on Facebook late Wednesday. Rohingya are widely reviled in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are considered illegal 'Bengali' immigrants brought in from modern-day Bangladesh during English colonial rule.

Facebook bans 'dangerous' Rohingya militant group





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