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February 25, 2021Facebook has banned all profiles related to the military junta that overthrew the civilian government in Myanmar.
This was announced by the company, which mentioned the killing of some demonstrators as the reason for the blockade, and AGI / AFP reported it.
The measure, which has immediate effect, affects all entities linked to the Burmese regime and army and is also valid for Instagram profiles.
All "military-related business entities" have also been banned from advertising on both platforms.
A news page linked to the junta was banned last weekend.
"The events after February 1, including the use of lethal force, have given rise to the need for this blockade", a company note reads, "we believe that the risks of allowing Tatmadaw (the Burmese army, ed) the use of Facebook and Instagram are too large ".
In recent days, the junta used Facebook to push forward the thesis that the coup was justified by alleged electoral fraud committed by Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of the country, arrested along with hundreds of other politicians.
In 2018, the leader of the military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, and other senior army officers were banned from the platform following the crackdown that forced 750,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim minority to leave the country and take refuge in Bangladesh.