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\nThe judge issued his ruling days after The Wall Street Journal released an investigative series, The Facebook Files.<\/p>\n
The fourth part of the series included reporting that shed light on how the company did not do enough to stop \u201cincitements to violence\u201d while hate speech in Myanmar proliferated in 2018.<\/p>\n
Facebook \u201cexecutives described the Myanmar violence as a wake-up call to the company\u2019s responsibilities in the developing world,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n
In Dhaka, Munshi Faiz Ahmad, former chairman of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, said he believed Faruqui\u2019s ruling would assist in efforts to prove allegations against Myanmar officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen a huge amount of anti-Rohingya posts and comments in Facebook when the Myanmar military and the vigilante groups in the country carried out genocide and crimes against humanity,\u201d he told BenarNews.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut whatever Facebook releases about the anti-Rohingya posts and contents would definitely corroborate the charges brought against Myanmar and the individuals involved in and responsible for the genocide and crimes against humanity at the international courts,\u201d said Ahmad, a former ambassador to China.<\/p>\n
$180 million for Rohingya<\/strong><\/p>\n The ruling came on the same day that Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American ambassador to the United Nations, announced that Washington was donating another $180 million to assist Rohingya refuges in Bangladesh, Myanmar and elsewhere.<\/p>\n The funding brings the total committed by the U.S. government to $1.5 billion, of which, $1.2 billion has gone to support 900,000 Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh, the U.S. State Department said.<\/p>\n That includes the 740,000 Rohingya who crossed the border seeking shelter after Myanmar\u2019s military launched its offensive in Rakhine state in August 2017. The funds also provide support to 472,000 Bangladeshis affected by the influx.<\/p>\n \u201cWe commend the people and Government of Bangladesh, who have responded generously to the refugees who have arrived in Bangladesh. However, more assistance is required,\u201d said Ned Price, the department\u2019s spokesman. \u201cWe urge other donors to come forward now with additional funds to sustain and increase support for the Rakhine state\/Rohingya refugee crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition, the State Department reiterated its support for the citizens of Myanmar.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the aftermath of Burma\u2019s Feb. 1<\/span> military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and brutal military crackdown, our commitment to the people of Burma, including Rohingya refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, remains unwavering,\u201d Price said referring to Myanmar by its former name.<\/p>\n The donation follows a U.S. pledge in May of $155 million toward the nearly $1 billion goal set by the UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, to support Rohingya in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n It also came days after the Biden administration announced plans to allow 125,000 refugees to enter the country beginning in the Oct. 1 fiscal year, including 35,000 from the Near East and South Asia. A State Department spokesman said the United States would not discriminate based on country of origin.<\/p>\n Reported by BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \n \n
\r\nThis content originally appeared on Radio Free Asia<\/a> and was authored by Radio Free Asia.
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