A review by el_mo
First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya speaks by Sophie Ansel, Habiburahman, Andrea Reece

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

3.75

A very important book, telling a rarely heard story directly from the man who lived it. With illiteracy around 90% due to repression and poverty, it is extremely rare to be able to read a memoir and expose directly from a Rohingya author. 
The book is eight years old, but nothing has improved for the ethnic minorities of Myanmar. This book helps bring their story to a largely indifferent world. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation