Myanmar’s military, which the top United Nations human rights official has accused of engaging in a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, has a verified Facebook page with 2.6m followers. The top UN human rights official 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 community YouTube channel with an associated Facebook page. Through our Facebook page we reached tens of thousands of our viewers,” Arakane said.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 06:56 UTC