Anita Schug
Dr Anita Schug is a Rohingya neurosurgeon and human rights activist based in Solothurn, Switzerland.[1][2][3] At the age of five she escaped the Rohingya genocide, learned medicine in Ukraine and a co-founder runs the Rohingya Medics Association.
Early life
Schug was born in Rangoon, Myanmar.[2] Doctors refused her mother at the hospital when giving birth because her family is Rohingya Muslim.[2] Her father was a chemical engineer.[2]
In the 1980s, when Anita Schug was five years old, her family fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, having paid people smugglers.[2][1]
Her family then moved to Pakistan, to the United Arab Amirates and then to Ukraine, where Schug studied medicine.[1][2] She speaks eight languages.[2]
Career
Schug is the head of Women and Children Affairs for the European Rohingya Council[4][5] and the co-founder of the Rohingya Medics Association.[6][7]
In 2017 she spoke of the thousands of Rohingya women killed in Rakhine state[8] and confirmed reports of violence against Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.[9]
In September 2017, Schug called the violence in Myanmar "a slow burning genocide".[10]
In 2018 she spoke about the widespread sexual abuse of Rohingya women in Buthidaung prison, Myanmar.[11]
In 2020 Schug spoke of the practical difficulties of following World Health Organization advice for social distancing for those who lived in crowded refugee camps, and called for faster distribution of food to refugees.[12]
Family
Schug has two sisters who are also both doctors.[1][2] She has two children and is married to a German trauma surgeon.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Resilient and resourceful, Rohingya diaspora carve out new lives". France 24. 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Hölzl, Verena (5 July 2018). "«Die sind ich, ich bin die» - wie eine Ärztin in der Schweiz mit den Rohingya mitleidet". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Lahmann-Lammert, Rainer. "Den Vertriebenen eine Stimme geben: Wie eine Neurochirurgin aus Osnabrück für eine verfolgte Minderheit kämpft". www.noz.de. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ↑ "Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Live from Doha". Al Jazeera English. November 14, 2018.
- ↑ "Coronavirus Public Health Education | Hand Wash with Soap in Rohingya Language – Rohingya Medics Organisation". Retrieved 2021-11-10.
- ↑ "Coronavirus : dans les camps de Rohingyas, la peur de l'épidémie". Asialyst (in français). 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2021-12-09.
- ↑ "Rohingya group says thousands killed in Myanmar". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- ↑ "Myanmar troops open fire on civilians fleeing attacks". www.aljazeera.com. 26 Aug 2017. Retrieved 2021-11-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Analyst objects to seeing Myanmar conflict as religious". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- ↑ "'Rohingya women inmates subjected to sexual abuse'". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
- ↑ "COVID-19: Bangladesh enforces lockdown in Rohingya refugee camps". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
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