Banned From Facebook, Myanmar’s Top General Finds Russian Refuge

The army commander-in-chief has amassed thousands of followers on his VKontakte social-media account

The Myanmar army chief whom United Nations investigators want to prosecute for genocide has sought refuge at Russian social-media site VK, after being banned from Facebook.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s new page, dubbed “Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services” and authenticated by military sources, so far has refrained from the invective he directed at the Muslim Rohingya minority on Facebook, where he described them as illegal immigrants and terrorists.

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