U.S. President Barack Obama sits alongside Myanmar's President Thein Sein in a US-Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali on November 18, 2011. © 2011 Reuters Phuket_Wan: May 19, 2013 By Human Rights Watch Media Release PHUKET: The United States should use the coming visit by Burma's president to ask tough questions about the slowing pace of human rights reforms and insist on implementation of past commitments, Human Rights Watch said today. President Barack Obama is hosting a visit to Washington, DC, by Burma's president Thein Sein on May 20-21, 2013. Six months after Obama's visit to Burma, key pledges by the Burmese government remain unimplemented or unmet. With large numbers of political prisoners still not released, a May 17 release of about 19 political prisoners appeared to be more politically calculated than a genuine commitment to reform, Human Rights Watch said. ''The last year has seen dev