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Governments should refrain from dialogue with Myanmar's repressive military junta until it stops committing human rights abuses, an activist group said Monday.
"Critical dialogue (on human rights) with Myanmar is very long on dialogue and very short on critical. It only encourages brutal regimes," said Baroness Caroline Cox, president of the British-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
"The situation in Myanmar is one of deep concern and deserves more pressure from the international community.
"The strongest possible measures should be taken to ostracise Burma (Myanmar) until it gets its act together," Cox told reporters in Hong Kong ...
Cox, who has just returned from a visit to the Thai-Myanmar border, slammed the junta for the human rights abuses committed against the Karen and Karenni ethnic minorities.
She recounted the tale of one heavily traumatized 11-year-old Karenni girl now living in a Thai refugee camp who witnessed all the male residents of her village being skinned alive by government troops.