Shamsul Anwarul Huq
politician
Shamsul Anwarul Huq (born 1944), also known as Kyaw Min, is a Rohingya academic, pro-democracy activist and former politician in Myanmar. He has also been a political prisoner. Shamsul Anwar was a CEC member of the National Democratic Party for Human Rights. Shamsul Anwar was elected to the Parliament of Myanmar in 1990.
Early life and profession
Shamsul Anwar was born in 1944 in the village of Mikyanzay (Minggisi) in Buthidaung of Arakan Division, British Burma. His father was Fazlur Rahman. He graduated from the Rangoon Institute of Economics with a bachelor's degree in economics. He also obtained a diploma in educational practice from the Institute of Education in Rangoon. He joined the Education Department of Burma in 1969. He taught in various state-owned primary schools in Arakan until 1985.
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