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Corporate Accountability and the Rohingya Genocide - N. Hasan and Regina M. Paulose

2 Sep 2024

Prior to the issuance of its final report in 2017, brought forward is the legal proceedings at the people in the Arakan made several criticisms of the International Court of Justice filed by the government Advisory Commission, and some groups within the of Gambia, a member of the Organization of Islamic Arakan requested that it be canceled.3 Cooperation. [...] In the introduction, specifically requesting that all genocidal acts stop the Advisory Commission calls attention to the against the Rohingya and for the preservation of “development crisis” in the Arakan: evidence related to the case. [...] The complaint alleged that The role of Facebook in the Rohingya genocide has Telenor should have known of the apartheid-like been widely discussed, and Facebook has faced conditions in the country in 2013 when it began criticism for its “determining” role in the 2017 purge.18 business operations in Burma. [...] It is important to underscore The company responsible for the pipelines, which that the people of the Arakan have never benefited would cut through the Arakan, was the China National materially from the oil and gas reserves.37 In Petroleum Corporation, which was the majority 2017, the Kofi Annan Commission report would shareholder, with Daewoo as a minority shareholder reiterate the need for the p. [...] contribution had not been met” and that the activity of the companies in the complaint were not “directly On the heels of the February 2021 coup, BAT ceased related to the Myanmar military nor its policies operations in Myanmar without providing an exact on the Rohingya …”41 reason The cessation of operations included the sustainable agriculture development program in In 2021, civil society groups.

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