First, They Erased Our Name - A Rohingya Speaks

About the author

Habiburahman, known as Habib, is a Rohingya. Born in 1979 in Burma (now Myanmar), he escaped torture, persecution, and detention in his country, fleeing first to neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, where he faced further discrimination and violence, and then, in December 2009, to Australia, by boat. Habib spent 32 months in detention centres before being released. He now lives in Melbourne. Today, he remains stateless, unable to benefit from his full human rights. Habib founded the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organization (ABRO) to advocate for his people back in Myanmar and for his community. He is also a translator and social worker, the casual support service co-ordinator at Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees (RISE), and the secretary of the international Rohingya organisation Arakan Rohingya National Assembly (ARNA), based in the UK. In 2019, he was made a Refugee Ambassador in Australia. The hardship and the human rights violation Habib has faced have made him both a spokesperson for his people and a target for detractors of the Rohingya cause.Sophie Ansel is a French journalist, author, and director, who lived in South Asia for several years. It was during a five-month stay in Burma that she first encountered the Rohingya people and heard of their plight. She returned to the country several times, and also visited the refugee communities in neighbouring countries like Thailand and Malaysia, where she met Habib in 2006. Habib helped Sophie to better understand the persecution faced by the Rohingya, and she has been advocating for their cause since 2011. When the Myanmar government accelerated the genocide of the Rohingya in June 2012, while Habib was detained in Australia, she helped him to write his story, and the story of his people.Andrea Reece is a translator of novels, short stories, and works of non-fiction from French and Spanish.

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Ansel, Habiburahman, Sophie Habiburahman Ansel
• Assisted by: Andrea Reece (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2019
• EAN: 9781912854035
• ISBN: 978-1-912854-03-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Myanmar, Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Social discrimination & inequality, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Social discrimination & equal treatment, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, Human rights, civil rights, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, International humanitarian law, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Myanmar (Burma), Public international law: humanitarian law, Social discrimination and social justice