聯合國專家敦促孟加拉國停止羅興亞人遣返計劃
A United Nations' expert on Myanmar urged Bangladesh on Tuesday to "shelve plans" to begin repatriating Rohingya refugees to Myanmar's Rakhine state this month to avoid persecution.
Nearly three-quarters of a million of Myanmar's Rohingya fled Rakhine state in August 2017 after a military crackdown. Amid refugee and journalist accounts of widespread killings and rape and the torching of villages, the Rohingya settled in crowded camps in neighboring Bangladesh.
The two countries agreed on Oct. 30 to begin returning Rohingya refugees to Rakhine state by mid-November, but U.N. rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, said the time is not right for their return.
"The Myanmar government has failed to provide guarantees they would not suffer the same persecution and horrific violence over again," Lee said in a statement. Lee added that the underlying causes of the crisis must first be addressed, including the right of citizenship.
Lee's warning followed a Facebook admission Monday that the social media network played a role in the genocide against the Rohingya people.
Last August, U.N. investigators accused Facebook of being "slow and ineffective" in tackling how it was being used to spread hatred among the country's Buddhist population against the minority Muslim Rohingya. In doing so, it "contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes," investigators said.
The report concludes Facebook was not doing enough to help prevent the platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence, according to Product Policy Manager Alex Warofka, who wrote on the company's blog.
The report recommends Facebook create a rigorously enforced human-rights policy while clamping down on hate speech, as well as working to improve digital literacy, and the accuracy of the company's content in Myanmar.星期二，聯合國緬甸問題專家敦促孟加拉國“擱置”本月開始將羅興亞難民遣返的計劃，以避免他們受迫害。
近75萬緬甸羅興亞人於2017年8月逃離緬甸若開邦，之前他們受到軍事鎮壓。隨着難民和記者不斷揭露大量發生的殺戮、強姦和焚燒村莊，羅興亞人在鄰國孟加拉國擁擠的難民營安身。
緬孟兩國於10月30日同意在11月中旬前開始將羅興亞難民送回若開邦，但聯合國緬甸人權問題特別報告員李亮喜說，現在不是讓他們返回緬甸的時候。
李亮喜在一份聲明中說:“緬甸政府未能保證他們不會再次遭受同樣的迫害和可怕的暴力。”他還說，必須首先解決危機的根源，包括（羅興亞人的）公民權。
在這之前，臉書星期一承認在針對羅興亞人的種族屠殺中起了作用。
聯合國調查人員指責社交網絡巨頭臉書去年8月未能迅速有效地解決有人利用臉書在緬甸佛教徒中散佈對少數穆斯林羅興亞人的仇恨的問題，從而“助長了犯罪暴行”。
臉書產品政策經理亞歷克斯·沃洛夫卡在公司的網站上寫道，週二公佈的報告得出的結論是，臉書沒有采取足夠措施阻止平臺被用於挑唆分裂和煽動線下暴力。
該報告建議臉書制定嚴格執行的人權政策，同時打擊仇恨言論，努力提高數字知識和網上內容的準確性。
