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KUALA LUMPUR: U.S. President Barack Obama saidtoday that the rights of Myanmar's minority Muslim population were not being fully protected and warned that the Southeast Asian country would not succeed if Muslims there were oppressed.
On a visit to Malaysia, Obama praised political reforms under way in
once-isolated Myanmar but said the danger of democratization was that it
could unleash religious and ethnic conflicts and that such developments
could move Myanmar in a bad direction.
"You have a Muslim minority (in Myanmar) that the broader population
has historically looked down upon and whose rights are not being fully
protected," Obama told a townhall-style meeting of young leaders from
across Southeast Asia.
"Myanmar won't succeed if the Muslim population is oppressed."
Members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority have been the victims of
attacks and widespread abuse in recent years blamed by human rights
groups and other observers on security forces and anti-Muslim mobs in
the country's Rakhine state. -- Reuters
