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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Nina LARSON

REVEALED: Myanmar army behind facebook pages spewing hate speech un probe - The Real Truth

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were driven into Bangladesh in a crackdown now subject to a UN genocide investigation (Credit: AFP)

Myanmar's military was behind dozens of seemingly unrelated Facebook pages spewing hate speech against the Rohingya prior to its dramatic 2017 crackdown against the mostly Muslim minority, a UN probe found Wednesday.

Facebook has long been accused of helping spread vast amounts of hate speech against the Rohingya before hundreds of thousands of them were driven into neighbouring Bangladesh in a crackdown now subject to a UN genocide investigation.

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