Obama Poised to Dine with Architects of Burma’s Ethnic Cleansing
Cross-posted from the United to End Genocide blog.  Rohingya
refugees.  Rohingya refugees.  Why is President Obama about to
meet with leaders in Burma who are systematically fomenting
hatred and violence that has already claimed innocent lives,
destroyed entire villages and displaced tens of thousands?  In
just a few days, President Obama will travel to Burma to
recognize progress that one of the most brutal regimes on the
planet has made toward democracy. Now that modest improvements
have been made or pledged by the regime, and Aung San Suu Kyi is
free, the U.S. government has decided to lift the economic and
diplomatic pressure that made reform in Burma possible.  That is
bad news if you are part of an ethnic minority in Burma. And it
is life threatening if you are a member of the Rohingya Muslim
minority.  Systematic hate speech and entreaties for the local
population to isolate and attack the Rohingya Muslim minority
are pervasive in wester