US commission urges Obama to meet Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

A US government agency called on President Barack Obama to meet with Rohingya Muslims and other minorities when he visits Myanmar this month and to press the government to act to prevent "serious and alarming violence" against them.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom also said the United States should continue to use sanctions against officials and individuals in Myanmar responsible for religious persecution and consider a binding agreement with the government linking the lifting of sanctions to rights reform.
"The political reform process in Burma is at great risk of deteriorating if religious freedom and the right to equal treatment under the law are not honoured and protected," the commission said in a report after its first visit to predominately Buddhist Myanmar, also known as Burma, according to a news agency.