Fazal Ahmed (born 1941) is a

Rohingya The Rohingya people (; ; ) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who predominantly follow Islam from Rakhine State, Myanmar. Before the Rohingya genocide in 2017, when over 740,000 fled to Bangladesh, an estimated 1.4 million Ro ...

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and former politician in

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. He was a leader of the

National Democratic Party for Human Rights The Democracy and Human Rights Party (; abbr. DHRP) is a political party in Myanmar representing the Rohingya of northern Rakhine State. History Established in 1989, among others by the lawyer and human rights activist Kyaw Hla Aung, the part ...

(NDPHR). He was elected as

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MP 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 constitutional committee to draft a new constitutio ...

Early life

Ahmed was born in 1941 in the village of Basuba in

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. Bordering Bangladesh, Maungdaw is home to one of 2 official border trade posts with Bang ...

Arakan Division, which was part of

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, at the time. His father's name was Mohammed Kalu. Ahmed attended the State High School of Maungdaw. After completing his high school education, he joined the Deputy Commissioner's Office in Maungdaw as a clerk in 1960. Over the years, he served in various offices in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Kyauk Taw, Kaukpyu, Taungup, and Sittwe in Arakan State. Subsequently, Ahmed passed the higher-grade pleader (HGP) examination and began working as a private lawyer. He also had a stint working in the office of the Deputy Commissioner in Maungdaw.

Political career

Ahmed was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the

DPHR Ahmed contested the 1990 general election from Maungdaw-2 constituency. He won the election with a mandate of 24,833 votes out of 58,230 votes. He was one of the four NDPHR MPs in the Burmese parliament.

Detention

The Burmese military junta banned NDPHR in 1992. Ahmed was arrested and tortured.He was sentenced for five years.

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Early life

Political career

Detention

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