International pressure on Burma’s military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy protests following last month’s coup increased on Friday as security forces shot dead at least nine demonstrators on the streets. Calls for dialogue and the end to the bloodshed came from several of Burma’s Southeast Asian neighbors led by Indonesia—an unusual stance in regional diplomacy. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned what he denounced as the military’s continuing brutal violence. A “firm, unified international response” was urgently needed, he said, quoted by his spokesman. The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation condemning the coup and lawmakers decried the increasingly harsh tactics used to suppress the demonstrations that have swept over Myanmar (also known as Myanmar) since the overthrow of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1. The total number of people killed in weeks of unrest has risen to at least 234, based on a tally …