Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization and Now Hasim

Hasim: He married and raised four children in a refugee camp near the border of Myanmar, the native country he fled, according to The Waterloo Record. He lived there for 16 years in a state of limbo and has more bad memories than he could recount. "I could write a book about it," he said. Hasim and his family came to the region as Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh in 2007. Now Hasim is an interpreter with four languages including Rohingya and English under his belt, a daughter going off to university in the fall and four other successful children. The treatment of Rohingya Muslims weaves in and out of the media spotlight, according to Hasim. As an advocate for Rohingya rights, Hasim lobbies the government through Canadian Burmese Rohingya Organization, a group he formed in 2008 with other refugees. "When we learned about what was happening, it made us very uncomfortable," Hasim said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.