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Facebook bans four armed rebel groups in Myanmar

sudshr47 February 5, 2019

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Facebook is continuing to clamp down on users in Myanmar who are using the service to further ethnic violence in the country.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Facebook announced that it has banned four rebel groups in Myanmar from the service. The groups, which Facebook designates as “dangerous organizations,” are the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA)  and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).

In addition to the groups being banned from the social network, Facebook says it will also remove any and all related praise, support, and representation of any of the four groups on its platform. Read more…

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Facebook removes hundreds more pages linked to the Myanmar military

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

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Facebook is still grappling with its very big problem in Myanmar.

Since the UN determined the spread of fake news on the social network played a role in the genocide of the Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar, Facebook has made attempts to deal with the issue. The company has performed three major purges of bad actors on its platform that it believes were contributing to the genocide. Its most recent action was announced on Tuesday night.

Facebook removed 425 Facebook Pages, 17 Facebook Groups, 135 Facebook accounts, and 15 Instagram accounts in Myanmar for engaging in what the company calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”  Read more…

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Young Rohingya refugees find hope in friendship

sudshr47 August 25, 2018

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Tasmin Ara, Mustakima, Nur Akter, and Showkat Atu arrived at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, a year ago.

The girls, all of whom are 10 with the exception of 12-year-old Showkat Atu, have developed a system for surviving Kutupalong: They make friends with every new girl who’s forced to call the world’s largest refugee camp her home.

“It is hard when you first arrive, so we help by sharing food and clothes,” Mustakima recently told Plan International, a child rights and humanitarian organization that provides services in Kutupalong. (Plan Internernational identified the girls, who participate in the nonprofit’s programs, by only their first names.) Read more…

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Salman Rushdie, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari and others call for end to ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

sudshr47 November 10, 2017

World leaders will do a lot of talking while they’re gathered in the Philippines this week for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, but a group of notable writers, actors and others would like them to take a brief moment and listen.
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Follow the desperate flight of Rohingya refugees with this moving map

sudshr47 November 3, 2017

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Amid a global refugee crisis that’s seen more than 22.5 million people flee countries like Syria and South Sudan because of civil war and famine, southern Bangladesh is poised to build the largest refugee camp in the world.

In recent months, more than 582,000 Rohingya refugees — a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar often described as “the most persecuted minority in the world” — have fled oppression and extreme violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. The resulting humanitarian crisis has worsened even more over the past few weeks.

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