President Barack Obama will revisit Myanmar this month. Obama visited the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, two years ago, being the first American chief executive to do so.

This time around Obama is visiting the country to attend two Asian regional summits. Since his first visit, almost 100,000 persecuted minority Muslims have fled the nation in the past two years.

At least 8,000 members of the Rohingya Muslims have left the country just in the past two weeks because of the violence against them. According to media reports, this number is nearly double the amount of last year.

Obama's visit has nothing to do with the violence.

Before his trip, Obama called Myanmar President Thein Sein Thursday to press him on the treatment of Muslims and about an update on its constitutional reforms set to take place.

Deputy National Security Adviser Benjamin J. Rhodes said the president's message in sum was, "We understand this is hard to address, but if you do not take steps toward alleviating the humanitarian situation, that is going to have a profound effect on Burma's standing and the perceptions of its progress."

In the time of Obama's first visit to Myanmar, the country had engineered a transition from military dictatorship of five decades, into a semi-democracy. As a result, some Western nations dropped a number of sanctions against Myanmar.

Obama would have most likely revisited the country after its 2015 elections.

Since then, Myanmar has not shown much progress.

"There are so many elements that are going wrong," John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, told The New York Times.

"Once the Burmese sanctions were lifted, the reforms started to stall," Sifton told The New York Times that, as a result, the U.S. no longer has much leverage over Myanmar.

Myanmar, rich in gems, oil and natural gas, became an independent nation in 1948.