Arakan News Agency
Myanmar’s hard-line monk vowed to continue the Rohingya campaign against Muslims through the social networking site on Facebook, although the Burmese government claims to have issued an order banning activity.
UN officials investigating the possibility of genocide in Myanmar say Facebook has become a source of propaganda against minorities in Myanmar.
Nationalist monks and activists who have emerged as a political power in recent years have spread racist rhetoric through Facebook targeting the Rohingya minority, which many see in this mainly Buddhist country as illegal immigrants.
“This is a violation of freedom of expression,” a member of the Myanmar Monk Society, told Reuters hours after Facebook described him as a “hate figure.”
“We will continue to use Facebook names and fake accounts to tell people the truth.”
The United Nations and aid agencies said about 700,000 Rohingyas fled to neighboring Bangladesh in August after an army attack.
Washington called the military offensive “ethnic cleansing” – a charge denied by Myanmar. Myanmar claims that its security forces have only launched a legal counterinsurgency operation against the “Bengali terrorists”.
A union monk whose account was disabled in May after Facebook repeatedly pushed him to delete some publications, said he had registered under another name and that he would “continue to write about the truth” through the site.
