The American court forced Facebook to publish the documents of a genocide.
Myanmar’s Muslim minority has long been subjected to violence, killings and harassment by the Myanmar army and government, and many have been displaced or taken refuge in other countries.
A judge in Washington has sharply criticized Facebook for failing to pass the information on to investigators investigating an international crime against the Rohingya minority. Myanmar is expected to be prosecuted for the scale of the genocide as it completes its investigation.
Facebook has so far refused to disclose the requested information, claiming it violates U.S. law that prohibits electronic communications service providers from disclosing user communications. The judge hearing the case believes that the posts and content that have now been deleted from Facebook are not covered by this law.
The Gambia is pursuing the case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide. Myanmar officials also claim to have confronted an insurgency and denied committing a systematic crime.
More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslim minorities fled the country in August 2017 following an army incursion, and according to refugees, many members of this minority were massacred and raped.
