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strong>Nov. 14, Online/AP

Myanmar'€™s minority Rohingya Muslims are among the most persecuted people on Earth, and advocates of their cause were hoping President Barack Obama would not only press the issue during his visit this week '€” they were hoping he would simply say their name.

On Friday, the last day of his trip, he finally did '€” uttering the word publicly for the first time on his three-day visit at a news conference with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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It is useful for the US to raise the issue of the Rohingyas, if for no other reason than that Myanmar is creating refugees.

Basically, ethnic cleansing operations in the Rakhine state are forcing Rohingyas to flee to Thailand or places like Indonesia and Malaysia. Hence, Myanmar is creating a problem for other states and should be sanctioned for this behavior.

Jagera

The rest of the world keeps knocking on the US'€™ door asking for help/protection etc.

If Obama had said nothing they might have been writing about how he does not care about Muslims, which is the argument being used in the Middle East; oddly enough by countries who have armies but seem unwilling to commit them in the fight against ISIL.

Duncan Tan

That is the trouble with the rest of the world thinking that the US should help and protect when in most cases the US is the source of the initial problem. On the ISIL affair I agree totally with you, although, if I am not wrong, there is at least one Middle East country that has its air force taking part, with one of its pilots being female.

AAI