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President visiting an unfinished Myanmar

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Artist Arker Kyaw paints a graffiti welcoming U.S. President Barack Obama in Yangon, Myanmar, at dawn on Saturday.

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"If President Obama doesn't put his full weight behind further urgent reforms in Myanmar, this trip risks being an ill-timed presidential pat on the back for a regime that has looked the other way as violence rages, destroying villages and communities just in the last few weeks," said Suzanne Nossel, the U.S.-based director of Amnesty International.