It wasn't enough to reek havoc and destabilization in the largest democracy in the world, he had to carry out genocide. Where is his next stop, The Hague? It must have been one of those crazy algorithms gone wrong again.
6 December 2021
By Dan Milmo
Military (click here) necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages,’ states the report
Facebook’s negligence facilitated the genocide (click here) of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.
The platform faces compensation claims worth more than £150bn under the coordinated move on both sides of the Atlantic.
A class action complaint lodged with the northern district court in San Francisco says Facebook was “willing to trade the lives of the Rohingya people for better market penetration in a small country in south-east Asia.”...
The politics within that country is tough, too. Militarized state and opposition leaders are always threatened in one way or another.
December 6, 2021
By Helen Regan
Myanmar's deposed civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, (click here) faces two years in jail after her sentence was halved by the country's military, state media MRTV reported on Monday.
Earlier in the day, Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of incitement and breaking Covid-19 rules, in the first verdict against the Nobel Peace Prize winner since the military seized power in February.
Suu Kyi, 76, was Myanmar's state counselor and de facto leader of the country before she was ousted and detained by the military 10 months ago and hit with almost a dozen charges that add up to combined maximum sentences of more than 100 years.
They include several charges of corruption -- which each carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years -- violating Covid-19 pandemic restrictions during the 2020 election campaign, incitement, illegally importing and possessing walkie talkies, and breaking the colonial-era Official Secrets Act -- which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison....She actually argued before The Hague for her country. It wasn't compassionate or factual to the very genocide the Myanmar military carried out. She was not directly responsible for the genocide. She had no control of the mlitary and much of her statements at The Hague were political. It is impossible to lead a country without the support of the military.
December 11, 2019
By Marlise Simons and Hannah Beech...Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi (click here) did not directly address the atrocities by Myanmar’s military and associated mobs that were described the day before — summary killings, babies thrown to their deaths, mass rapes, whole villages burned to cinders — all amply documented by the United Nations and human rights groups. Thousands of Rohingya have been killed and three quarters of a million driven into a squalid exile in neighboring Bangladesh....
How did this peace icon end up at a genocide trial? (click here)
