1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated October 22, 2015U.S. Relations with Burma: Key Issues for 2015 (Update)U.S. relations with Burma (Myanmar) in 2015 have continued to present challenges. Burma is scheduled to hold nationwide parliamentary elections on November 8, 2015, which the Administration
2、 has called “an important milestone in Burmas political transition.” As detailed below, efforts to conclude a nationwide ceasefire agreement (CA) to end nearly six decades of low-grade civil war have yielded mixed results. Ethnic crisis in Rakhine State continues. The upcoming elections have heighte
3、ned the sensitivity of issues at the heart of the crisis, including, for example, the citizenship status of ethnic Rohingya. Other pressing issues include the rise of Ma Ba Tha, a nationalist Buddhist group, and its anti-Islam rhetoric; the continued arrest and detention of political prisoners; and
4、the incomplete fulfillment of President Thein Seins “11 commitments” made during President Obamas 2012 visit. During his visit to Burma in November 2014, President Obama stated that the democratization process in Burma was both “real” and “incomplete.” In a letter to President Obama, 41 Members of t
