Nur Ahmed (born 1928), also known as Tin Maung, was 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 ...

legislator, health worker and activist. He 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 ...

. He 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

Ahmed was born in 1928 in the village of Phone Nyo Lake in

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 ...

. He attended the Buthidaung State High School. He completed his vocational training at the Health Assistance Training Course in Insein,

Rangoon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government ...

between 1954 and 1956. He later joined the Anti-Malaria Department of the Burmese government. He was a Health Assistant till 1968. Ahmed was a member of the Rohingya Independent Force until 1978.

Political career

As CEC member of the NDPHR, Ahmed contested 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 draft ...

and won from Buthidaung-2 constituency with 20,045 votes out of 40,143 votes. The NDPHR won four seats in parliament. In 1992, the Burmese military junta banned the NDPHR.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed, Nur Rohingya politicians 1928 births Living people Burmese Muslims