Myanmar has been facing charged of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya community where more than 7 lakh people were forced to move to Bangladesh.
According to UN investigators, Facebook had allegedly played an important role in the same case as it was a medium to spread hate speech to incite violent activities.
Nicholas Koumjian, head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM), said that the Facebook holds material which is “highly relevant and probative of serious international crimes” but had not shared any evidence during year-long talks.
“Unfortunately, to date, the Mechanism has not received any material from Facebook but our discussions continue and I am hopeful that the Mechanism will eventually receive this important evidence,” Koumjian told Reuters news agency said on Monday.
The UN Human Rights Council had set up the IIMM in 2018 to collect evidence of international crimes in Myanmar, which will be used in future prosecutions and proceedings.
Myanmar has also denied genocide and says that the country’s armed forces were carrying out legitimate operations against those who attacked police posts.
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