Ebrahim, also known as Chit Lwin, 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 ...

lawyer, accountant and former politician. He was elected as a

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 ...

MP in 1990 election. He was the chairman 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 ...

. The party was later banned by the Burmese military junta and its members are barred from contesting elections.

Early life and profession

Ebrahim was born in 1946 in Myuthugyi village of

Maungdaw Maungdaw (, ) is a town in Rakhine State, in the western part of Myanmar (Burma). It is the administrative seat of Maungdaw Township and Maungdaw District. Maungdaw is a town of Myanmar and borders Bangladesh. Maungdaw is 16 miles north of But ...

. His father was Master Siddique Ahmed. He attended the State High School in Maungdaw. He graduated from the Rangoon Institute of Economics with a

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ...

in 1967. He received a post-graduate diploma in economic planning from the Institute of Economics in Rangoon. He later studied accountancy and law, becoming a certified accountant and auditor. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1967 and worked there till 1983. Since 1984, he has been a lawyer in the High Court of Rangoon.

Political career

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 ...

, Ebrahim contested from the Maungdaw-1 constituency and won the election with 20,045 votes out of 64,019 votes. His party won four seats in the Burmese parliament.

References

{{reflist Rohingya politicians Burmese Muslims People from Maungdaw 1946 births Living people