“I am three years old and will need to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my nation, an outlaw in the globe. I am 3 years previous, and I don’t yet know that I am stateless.”

Habiburahman was created in 1979 and raised in a little village in american Burma. When he was three years previous, the country’s military leader declared that his people, the Rohingya, weren’t one of the 135 recognized ethnic groups that created the eight “nationwide races.” He was left stateless in about First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks his very own country.

Since 1982, an incredible number of Rohingya have had to flee their homes due to great prejudice and persecution. In 2016 and 2017, the federal government intensified the process of ethnic cleaning, and over 700,000 Rohingya individuals were forced to mix the border into Bangladesh.

Here, for the very first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the truth behind this global humanitarian turmoil. Through the eyes of a child, we find out about the historic persecution from the Rohingya people and witness the violence Habiburahman endured throughout his existence until he escaped the country in 2000.

First, They Erased Our Name can be an urgent, moving memoir in what it feels like to be repressed in one’s very own nation and a refugee in others. It offers voice to the voiceless.