Arakan News Agency
“New York Times” called on US President Barack Obama to send a clear message to the Government of Myanmar or formerly known as Burma, and end persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
On the eve of his second visit, which begins on Wednesday, the newspaper President Obama said his first visit to the capital of Myanmar Rangoon, in which he was passionate enthusiasm unrivaled to help this country that wisdom a military junta for decades, where it says that between the first visit and the second has not changed much.
The newspaper says “President Obama was enthusiastic in the first historic visit to Myanmar in November 2012, the first visit by a US president to the country that was approaching the democratic transformation after five decades of dictatorship, but two years ago on a visit moved the government, controlled by the military and quasi-civil in Yangon, slow to fulfill its obligations undertaken by the United States, when the two governments pledged to start a new relationship. ”
The paper adds, “in his second visit to Myanmar, which begins on Wednesday, Obama may try to hide the disappointment of the conditions of change in Myanmar, though this will be a big mistake.”
Show that “officials in Myanmar have known the importance of building relationships with the United States, as a means to get rid of the era of sanctions and international isolation. That is why Obama must remind them firmly that his administration has the means to speed up or slow down that process, it is now until next fall, where he will hold Myanmar’s general election there is still plenty of time before the United States to put pressure on Myanmar and strongly to achieve meaningful democratic reforms and stop all forms of persecution of Rohingya Muslims. ”
The report finds that “the political transition this year in Myanmar was not promising, President Thein Sein has vowed earlier this year to allow (any citizen) to nominate himself for election. But a parliamentary committee voted in June against a constitutional amendment, and the existence of material had prevented opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner from standing for election; because children hold British citizenship. ”
The paper points out that “in addition to the prevention of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi from running for the presidency, the officials in Myanmar appeared to put electoral bases to prevent her party, the National Congress for Democracy, from running; for fear of getting a majority through reserve seats and representatives of ethnic minorities.”
The paper believes that Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi deserves to have a role in the leadership of the nation. This will only happen in the case of amending the constitution to give equal political parties in the upcoming elections.
