Saturday, July 20, 2013

( 20.07.2013 )The lone ranger ( The Hindu )


Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, July 20, 2013
INTERVIEW U Ba Sein, a Rohingya based in the U.K., talks about his popular blog — perhaps the only one — on his community

UBa Sein doesn’t quite fit your idea of the indigent Rohingya refugee from Myanmar. An accountant in Sheffield, U.K., he is a graduate of Rangoon University, doesn’t even use his Muslim name Mohammad Shah. “Many Rohingyas have two names, I prefer to use my Burmese name because it is on all official documents,” says Ba Sein.
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