U.S. President Barack Obama called on Friday forMyanmar to end discrimination against Rohingya people, urging in his strongest comments on the persecuted Muslim minority that the government grant them equal rights.

FULL STORY: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-myanmar-usa-rohingya-idUSKCN0IY0VN20141114

Myanmar’s national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained.

FULL STORY: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/us-myanmar-rohingya-exclusive-idUSKCN0HM09520140927

Standing next to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that the law barring her from becoming president “doesn’t make much sense”.

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