Taken at the premiere of Freedom Film Festival held at Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur on 2 September 2017 Ziaur was born on 20 June 1993 at Mee Chang Zay, Buthidaung township in Arakan State, western part of Myanmar. In 1993, his family fled Myanmar to escape religious persecution and human rights abuses. The abuses include forced labour, land confiscation, arbitrary arrest, extortion, as well as restrictions on movement, marriage, education, and employment. Due to that his family and all Rohingyas were denied the rights of citizenship in Myanmar, they were subjected to human rights abuses with no recourse. His family sought refuge in Bangladesh before another tragedy hit them. Forced into a desperate situation, Ziaur’s father abandoned him and his mother when he was just two years old, making them dependants of his maternal grandmother’s family. They were moved from one camp to another several times as punishment by the government due to their activism. Ziaur himself ...