SADEK Ali Hassan is a 44-year-old teacher living in Malaysia. He is also a Rohingya. He has spent more than a quarter of a century living outside his homeland. When I meet him in the small madrasah he runs for children from his community in Ampang, he’s at first reluctant to talk about his past.
As we chat, however, memories of his village Taung Pyo Let Yar – near Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in the state of Rakhine – flood back.
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