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Rohingya minority group presses US on Burmese sanctions

By Jane O'Brien, BBC News, Washington Last year, Indonesia picked up 130 starving, dehydrated Rohingyas from a boat in its waters A prominent member of Burma's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority has urged the US to limit any plan to lift sanctions against the country until the group's human rights can be guaranteed.