Facebook played a role in violence in Myanmar that forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas to flee their homes to Bangladesh, rights groups have claimed.

Axar.az informs that, in a statement on Sunday, representatives of the Voice of Rohingya, Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights, Rohingya Youth for Legal Action, and Rohingya Women for Justice and Peace said they had a call with Facebook Director for Human Rights Miranda Sissons, and her colleague Alex Waraofka.

“We told her that we were forced to flee from Myanmar to Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh after the violence in Myanmar, which Facebook played a role in," it said, adding that it is now the responsibility of the online social media platform to help them get justice.

“We asked her [Sissons] to share the information Facebook has with international justice mechanisms, because we had read that they had not done so,” the press release said.