UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The pinnacle of a U.N. workforce of investigators on Myanmar mentioned on Friday he’s hopeful that Fb will hand over extra data to the workforce because it collects proof of essentially the most critical worldwide crimes since 2011.

The Unbiased Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) goals to construct case recordsdata for proceedings in nationwide, regional or worldwide courts. It was established in 2018 by the U.N. Human Rights Council and started work the next yr.

Fb has beforehand mentioned it was working with the IIMM. In 2018, U.N. human rights investigators mentioned the social media website had unfold hate speech that fueled the violence. Fb has mentioned it’s working to dam hate speech.

“We started participating with Fb as quickly as we have been created in 2019. They usually have been assembly with us frequently,” Nicholas Koumjian, head of the Geneva-based IIMM, informed reporters in New York on Friday.

“We’ve acquired some, however actually not all that now we have requested. We proceed to barter with them and truly I’m hopeful that we’re going to obtain extra data. I do know that there is a few of our requests they’ve informed us they’re now once more contemplating,” he mentioned.

Myanmar is going through expenses of genocide on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) over a 2017 army crackdown on the Rohingya that compelled greater than 730,000 folks to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

Myanmar denies genocide and says its armed forces have been conducting authentic operations in opposition to militants who attacked police posts.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; modifying by Grant McCool)