ĭuring the country's long military dictatorship under the authoritarian State Peace and Development Council, it was difficult to obtain accurate information about the legal or social status of LGBT Burmese citizens. Vigilante attacks, torture and vigilante executions also occur. Transgender people are subject to police harassment and sexual assault, and their gender identity is not recognised by the state. Heterosexual anal intercourse and oral sex are also illegal.
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Same-sex sexual activity is illegal and section 377 of Myanmar's Penal Code 1861 subjects same-sex sexual acts (regardless of whether they were consensual or done in private) to a term of imprisonment of up to 20 years in prison. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Myanmar are subject to official persecution and discrimination, with LGBT people facing legal and social challenges not experienced by others. I’d also like to walk unaided, and to help my family earn an income.Up to 20 years with fines beatings, vigilante attacks and torture and vigilante executions I’d like to spend more time with teenagers my age. My home is on a hill, so I still find it difficult to get outside and move around. My main problems now are mobility and everyday activities. But I’ve already seen improvements in the coordination of my limbs and my sense of balance, which makes walking easier. I’m learning to walk with the crutches and the help of the physiotherapist. HI’s physiotherapist drew up a rehabilitation programme and took my measurements for crutches, to make it easier to walk. But apart from these problems, we’re on good terms with the other refugees and everyone takes care of each other.Īt the beginning of October, Médecins sans frontière told HI that I needed rehabilitation care.
Hygiene conditions are very poor in the camp because there isn’t much clean water and there’s a lot of overcrowding. Various humanitarian organisations have given us clothes, food and hygiene equipment. We survive with help from NGOs and the Bangladeshi government. I live with ten members of my family - my parents, four brothers and three sisters - in a temporary shelter in Unichipalong camp in Bangladesh. After walking for six days, we arrived at the border with Bangladesh and the next day we crossed the river Naf in a boat.
My father was a farmer in Powanchong, in the region of Mowandow, Myanmar. I’ve lost the strength in my muscles, my sense of balance and my coordination, which makes it much harder to do everyday activities. I was hit in the spine - in the cervical and lumbar vertebrae - which has weakened my upper and lower limbs. I suffered a spinal cord injury from a beating I received when my village in Myanmar was attacked, and now I’m disabled. Disabled for the last few months, he describes life in Uchinprang camp, in Bangladesh. Abu Sadeq is one of 600,000 Rohingya who have fled Myanmar since 25 August.