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'First, They Erased Our Name is a rare entry from a Rohingya thinker into the imaginative canon of the community’s experience' @supriyan reviews #Habiburahman's #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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'I am three years old, and don’t yet know that I am stateless. A tyrant leant over my cradle and traced a destiny for me that will be hard to avoid: I will either be a fugitive or I won’t exist at all' - Habiburahman
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#FirstTheyErasedOurName gives voice to the violence and trauma of the Rohingya crisis through Habiburahman story. Here are some powerful glimpses that stayed with us. @Sophieansel
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'Habib’s chilling, powerfully narrated personal history is a rare first-hand account of the persecution of Rohingya & of the futureless escape of hundreds of thousands of the community from Myanmar' @IndianExpress on #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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'Do not be indifferent to this urgent, humane book. Read it, share it, talk about what has been happening – and in so doing safeguard the humanity of Habiburahman, the Rohingya and all asylum seekers'
@SatPaper reviews #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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#FirstTheyErasedOurName by Habiburahman and
@Sophieansel is the first memoir of a Rohingya published in English and offers an essential personal account of life under Myanmar’s oppressive regime.
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Today, on #RohingyaGenocideDay @thewire_in shares an exclusive excerpt from Habiburahman’s #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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"By cramming the Rohingya into prison cells, the idea that we are criminals has taken root.
We have been portrayed as an enemy who must be destroyed."
An excerpt from the book, 'First They Erased Our Name : A Rohingya Speaks'.
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“I pray that I am never made a porter. This involves accompanying soldiers into the mountains as they hunt down Chin rebels, and is the job that we fear the most" - (1/2) #Habiburahman in #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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“At home, we speak Arakanese, the language of the region where our family comes from, and at school our lessons are in Burmese." -(1/2) #Habiburahman on knowing about his original language
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"The villagers are descended from many different ethnic groups, speak many different languages, and include Christians, animists, Muslims, and Buddhists.” (2/2) - Habiburahman in #FirstTheyErasedOurName, speaking on the #multicultural ethnicity of his village
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He was left stateless in his own country.
Today, as we mark the 2nd Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, here are 7 Times Habiburahman’s story shows us the plight of the #Rohingyas (4/n)
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Here, for the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the truth behind this global humanitarian crisis. (2/n)
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#FirstTheyErasedOurName is an urgent, moving memoir about what it feels like to be repressed in one's own country and a refugee in others.
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(2) As the first memoir of a Rohingya to be published in English, #FirstTheyErasedOurName by Habiburahman and @Sophieansel offers an essential personal account of life under Myanmar's oppressive regime
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#ReadOfTheHour: Today, as we mark the 2nd Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, we share #Habiburahman's story through his urgent, moving memoir #FirstTheyErasedOurName where, for the first time, a Rohingya speaks up
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Tomorrow marks the 2nd Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day and Habiburahman's story in #FirstTheyErasedOurName is the #mustread of the hour
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'Told in short, punchy chapters, written in an urgent present tense, Habiburahman details the experiences of his family to reveal how the Burmese army has been brutalising his people since the 1960s' @spectator reviews #FirstTheyErasedMyName
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'The name Rohingya is prohibited and we do not exist...' - #Habiburahman talks to @SBSNews about his story and his book #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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'Your memory is all you will have to keep our history alive' - #Habiburahman talks to @IrishTimes about his memoir #FirstTheyErasedOurName: A #Rohingya Speaks
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First, They Erased Our Name is an urgent, moving memoir about what it feels like to be repressed in one's own country and a refugee in others. (2/2) #Habiburahman #FirstTheyErasedOurName
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