Burma’s President Thein Sein flew on Sunday evening from Phnom Penh to
Rangoon where he will host visiting US President Barack Obama on Monday. Thein
Sein will then return to the Cambodian capital to resume participation at the
current ASEAN summit.
President Obama has been
scheduled to meet Thein Sein and Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann as well as
Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his six-hour stopover visit
in Rangoon before he too flies to Phnom Penh to attend the summit.
Obama is due to deliver a speech
at the Convocation Hall of Rangoon University, and will reportedly have lunch
at the US Embassy in Rangoon.
Meanwhile, the New York Times has
reported that Obama’s Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, spent time in
Burma during World War II when he was a cook for a British Army captain.
President Obama never met his grandfather.
Hussein Onyango Obama is believed
to be born in 1895, and was a member of the Luo tribe. He worked for several
years as a servant for white colonialists in Kenya. His son, the first Barack
Hussein Obama, was the president’s father. About 75,000 Kenyans served in Burma
during World War II.
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