Kyaw Hla Aung

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Kyaw Hla Aung (born August 16, 1940 in Sittwe , Burma (now Myanmar ), † July 31, 2021 in Botahtaung, Yangon , Myanmar) was a Myanmar lawyer, civil rights activist and member of the Rohingya minority.

Life

Kyaw Hla Aung was born in 1940 in Sittwe, the capital of the Rakhine State administrative unit , as the son of a government official. He completed his training in Sittwe and began working there in 1960 as a court clerk and stenographer . Due to the injustice and discrimination of the Rohingya he saw, he gave up his position and began training as a lawyer, which he graduated with honors in 1982.

In 1986, when the Myanmar government began confiscating Rohingya land, Aung represented a group of farmers and appealed against the expropriations. In retaliation, he was arrested and spent two years in Yangon Prison . In connection with the riots of 1988 he was able to leave the prison and returned to Sittwe. He was a co-founder of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights , which wanted to represent the interests of the Rohingya, and was put up as a candidate for the 1990 elections. To prevent the candidacy, he was arrested again and sentenced to 14 years in prison. In 1997 he was released under an amnesty, but has been detained again on several occasions. His home was burned down in 2012 during the anti-Rohingya riot and he subsequently lived in Thet Kae Pyin Detention Center , where he served as one of the leaders.

The main aim of his mission was to organize access to health care and education for the Rohingya and to draw attention to and inform about the persecution of the Rohingya.

Aung was married and had seven children. He died in early August 2021, two weeks before his 81st birthday.

Awards

In 2018, Aung was awarded the Aurora Prize for Promoting Humanity for his work .

In 2019, Fortune magazine ranked him 28th in the World's Greatest Leaders list.

The Armenian Post dedicated a stamp to him in 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aurora Prize Laureate Hla Aung passes away. In: Public Radio of Armenia. August 1, 2021, accessed August 1, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Rohingya Human Rights Activist Kyaw Hla Aung Passes Away. In: The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. August 1, 2021, accessed August 2, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Kyaw Hla Aung: "We do not come from another country." In: auroraprize.com. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Kamala Thiagarajan: Rohingya lawyer Kyaw Hla Aung on the price of fighting for justice. In: devex.com. September 17, 2018, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Human rights group deplores Myanmar court extension of Rohingya activist Kyaw Hla Aung detention. In: abc.au.net. August 6, 2014, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  6. ^ Benjamin Breitegger: Life in the largest refugee camp in the world. In: Deutschlandfunk. July 1, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ 'Deeply Disturbing' Conditions For Rohingya In Myanmar, And Those Yet To Return. In: npr.org. May 29, 2018, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Kristin Hulaas Sunde: A reluctant hero of the Rohingya in Myanmar. April 8, 2015, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Dorothee Nolte: Rohingya activist excellent. In: Daily Games. June 11, 2018, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ World's Greatest Leaders. In: Fortune. Accessed February 15, 2020 .
  11. ↑ New stamp features 2018 Aurora Prize Laureate Kyaw Hla Aung. In: news.am. October 16, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Aung, Kyaw Hla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Myanmar lawyer and civil rights activist; Member of the Rohingya minority
BIRTH DATE August 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Sittwe , Burma (today: Myanmar )
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Botahtaung, Yangon , Myanmar