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Umm. Facebook seems to be translating “Xi Jinping” written in Burmese as “Mr Shithole”.

This is a post on Aung San Suu Kyi’s official page, recounting her meeting with him yesterday... h/t @felizysolo

”kingdom of Mr Shithole”
From @IrrawaddyNews...
It is still the same, almost 24 hours later:

facebook.com/79260721087349…
.@Facebook now appears to have disabled translation from Burmese to English, after it was found to be calling the Chinese president “Mr Shithole” during his trip to #Myanmar.
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Poppy McPherson
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The executive summary of by Myanmar's govt-approved probe into the Rohingya crisis has been published. It characterizes what the U.N & others call genocide against the minority as a "haphazard response" by the military to attacks by Muslim militants. That included mass killings. ImageImageImageImage
Significant that govt is now acknowledging killings of >100 Rohingya civilians.

However - and this comes two days before initial ICJ judgement in genocide case - the report frames crackdown as a "disproportionate response" to militant attacks, not attempt to drive out population ImageImageImageImage
The report has several contradictory statements and repeats the claim that Rohingya burned their own homes, to trigger an exodus that would generate pity/draw attention to the plight of the group. At the same time it says "many witnesses" said security forces burned the houses. ImageImageImageImage
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James Mitchell Ⓥ
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Muslim victims of Myanmar ‘clearances’ voice outrage as peace prize winner dismisses atrocity charges
When Aung San Suu Kyi rose to denounce genocide charges against her country at the “world court” last week, three victims of Myanmar’s ethnic violence were sitting close behind the Nobel peace prize winner – disbelieving and seething with anger.
Hamida Khatun, Yousuf Ali and Hasina Begum had travelled from the sprawling Kutupalong refugee camp outside Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh to sit on the legal delegation attending the International Court of Justice’s emergency hearing in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
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Celal Eren Çelik
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HAPİSTEKİ "HANEDAN"
1-Evet sevgili dostlar malumunuz geçtiğimiz günlerde İran bir kez daha karıştı (Bu 7.halk ayaklanması) ve İran’da halk sokaklara döküldü.
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Brad Heath
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Aung San Suu Kyi won't free two @Reuters reporters; she told the U.S. that they had revealed state secrets.

The secret was that her government massacred civilians.

washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…
Here's the secret they exposed. It's among the best investigative journalism I've ever seen. reuters.com/investigates/s…
Myanmar is making these reporters pay an unconscionable price for revealing the truth. And as if this injustice weren't enough, the police have admitted, in court, that they were framed.
reuters.com/article/us-mya…
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Andrew RC Marshall
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THREAD: In August 2017, Myanmar's military launched a brutal campaign in Rakhine State that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh. We investigated the killings and the aftermath in a powerful series called “Myanmar Burning.” reut.rs/2CC5kV1
Our first investigation revealed a massacre of 10 Rohingya men and boys at a village called Inn Din. Myanmar soldiers and Rakhine villagers rounded them up and shot or hacked them to death. reut.rs/2EEft50 @specialreports
Our Reuters colleagues Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested while reporting on the massacre and later sentenced to 7 years in jail. Their plight underscored what critics saw as deteriorating press freedom under Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's government reuters.com/investigates/s…
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Amnesty International
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BREAKING: We have withdrawn our highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu Kyi, in light of the Myanmar leader’s shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for. bit.ly/ASSKupdate
.@kuminaidoo, in a letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, has expressed our disappointment that she has not used her political and moral authority to safeguard human rights, justice or equality in Myanmar.
"Today, we are profoundly dismayed that you no longer represent a symbol of hope, courage, and the undying defense of human rights," writes @kuminaidoo to Aung San Suu Kyi of #Myanmar
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sarah amy harvard 💫
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Aung San Suu Kyi is *not* silent about the noted genocide of Rohingya Muslim. She has been very clear on where she stands.
She has taken a page from arab dictators and donald trump by claiming footage are "fake" news and plotted by "terrorists."
She has blamed "terrorists” for “a huge iceberg of misinformation calculated to create a lot of problems between different countries.”
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