Shamsul Anwarul Huq (born 1944), also known as Kyaw Min, is a

Rohingya The Rohingya people () are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an ...

academic, pro-democracy activist and former politician in Myanmar. He has also been a

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although n ...

. Huq was a CEC member of the

National Democratic Party for Human Rights The Democracy and Human Rights Party ( my, ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးပါတီ; Abbreviation, abbr. DHRP) is a political party in Myanmar representing the Rohingya people, Rohingya of ...

. Huq was elected to the

Parliament of Myanmar The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ( my, ပြည်ထောင်စု လွှတ်တော် lit. Assembly of the Union) is the ''de jure'' national-level bicameral legislature of Myanmar (officially known as the ''Republic of the Union of My ...

in 1990.

Early life and profession

Huq was born in 1944 in the village of Mikyanzay (Minggisi) in Buthidaung of Arakan Division, British Burma. His father was Fazar Rahman. He graduated from the Rangoon Institute of Economics with a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in economics. He also obtained a diploma in educational practice from the Institute of Education in Rangoon. He joined the Education Department of Burma in 1969. He taught in various state-owned primary schools in Arakan until 1985. He became a primary school

headmaster A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school. In som ...

. In 1988, he was dismissed from his job due to his involvement in the

8888 uprising The 8888 Uprising ( my, ၈၈၈၈ အရေးအခင်း), also known as the People Power UprisingYawnghwe (1995), pp. 170 and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) th ...

Political career

Huq was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. He was elected from

Buthidaung Buthidaung (, ) is a town in Rakhine State, in the westernmost part of Myanmar (Burma). It is the administrative seat of the Buthidaung Township. Buthidaung lies on the west bank of the Mayu river, and experienced severe flooding in June 2010 and ...

-1 constituency during the

1990 Burmese general election General elections were held in Myanmar on 27 May 1990, the first multi-party elections since 1960, after which the country had been ruled by a military dictatorship. The elections were for a parliament-sized constitutional committee to draf ...

, after receiving 30,990 out of 41,668 votes. His party won a total of four seats. The Burmese military junta banned his party in 1992. At the invitation of

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2 ...

, Huq joined the Committee Representing the People's Parliament in 1998.

Detentions

In 1992, Huq was detained by Burmese military intelligence for three months during operations against the Rohingya population. In 1994, military intelligence detained him for 45 days. In March 2005, he was arrested from his home in Rangoon, and was charged under Section 18 of the 1982 Burmese nationality law and Section 5 of the Anti-State Emergency Law. He was sentenced to 47 years in imprisonment. His wife, two daughters and one son were also arrested under the 1982 Burmese nationality law, and sentenced to 17 years in prison. The convictions barred the family from contesting elections.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huq, Shamsul Anwarul Rohingya politicians Burmese Muslims 1944 births Living people People from Rakhine State

Early life and profession

Political career

Detentions

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