Facebook UK
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From:
McCue Jury & Partners LLP
84 Brook Street
Mayfair
London
W1K 5EH
Date:
6 December 2021
Our Ref:
ROH.00352.FAC
Your Ref:
NA
and
10 Brock Street
Regent's Place
London
NW1 3FG
FAO: GENERAL COUNSEL
By Hand
Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: LETTER OF NOTICE
We represent members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar now living in the UK,
and in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Our clients and/or their family members have been subject to acts of serious violence,
murder and/or other grave human rights abuses perpetrated as part of the campaign of
genocide and crimes against humanity conducted in Myanmar by the regime and civilian
extremists. As has been widely recognised and reported, this campaign was fomented by
extensive material published on and amplified by the Facebook platform.
A report commissioned by Facebook concluded that it "[wasn't] doing enough to help
prevent [its] platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence";
Facebook executives have made similar public admissions. Facebook's website suggests that
"[p]eople are using Meta to connect and strengthen their communities" and Facebook's
mission is to "[g]ive people the power to build community". Despite Facebook's
acknowledgement of its role in such real-world harms and its proclaimed position as a
positive force in the world, no meaningful compensation has been offered to any survivor.
We can only assume that this decision has been based on the calculation that the Rohingya
people, largely marginalised and living in refugee camps would struggle to find access to
justice. Indeed, until now, no successful legal action has ever been taken against Facebook
to compensate the Rohingya people for the extraordinary losses they have suffered.
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