“What the Burmese President is trying to do is cheating the world, is lying to the world. He is just playing with the international community to get their support," he said.
Burmese President Thein Sein has overseen a series of reforms, including the release from house arrest of pero-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Both U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have visited Burma in the last twelve months. And President Sein has been invited to visit London later this year.
British Foreign Minister Alastair Burt said this week, though, that the situation in Kachin is increasingly serious and could present a threat to wider reforms.
Zoya Phan from Burma Campaign UK says Britain has a wider obligation to help the Kachin because of promises it failed to keep after World War II.
“The Kachin army were sided with the British army and were promised independence by the authorities there. But when independence came to Burma, it was only for major ethnic (group), which was the Burmen, but other ethnic minorities including the Kachin were denied their equal rights," she said.
Burma has just marked the 65th anniversary of its independence from Britain with a military parade.
Vice-President Sai Mauk Kham made no reference to the current violence.
He told the assembled audience that "(h)istory has taught us that the entire nation of 60 million Burmese people wish to have peace, rule of law and development."
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