Brigadier General Jo Min Toon interviews CNN Correspondent Clarissa WardAccording to Reuters and Twitter posts on the 5th, Brigadier General Jo Min Thun, spokesman for the Myanmar military regime, interviewed CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward the day before.
Correspondent Clarisa asked through an interpreter, “I saw a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi’s father (General Aung San). What would you say if he lived and looked at the current situation in Myanmar?”
Brigadier General Jo Min Toon replied, “If I were alive now, I would only say a word. How stupid my daughter is.”
Brigadier General Jo Min Toon answers an interview with a CNN correspondentThe video leaked to SNS was not released by CNN. It is believed that the interview scene between Correspondent Clarisa and Brigadier General Jo Min Toon was filmed next to someone.
On social media, only the part related to the torture of Suu Kyi Aung San is spreading out of the interview responses by Brigadier General Jo Min Toon.
Myanmar citizens said, “How dare to call Aung San Suu Kyi’s torture stupid in an interview with CNN?” and “Jo Min Thun doesn’t realize what he and the military are doing.”
Another citizen said, “Jo Min Thun was jealous, so he wentssip and devalued torture Aung San Suu Kyi.”
Aung San Suu Kyi, 75-year-old adviser, is believed to be a political prisoner who has been under house arrest for 15 years under the Myanmar military regime and has won the Nobel Peace Prize as the’flower of democratization.
Born in 1945 as the daughter of Myanmar’s independent hero, General Aung San, when his father was assassinated at the age of two, he grew up in India and England, and worked at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Jumped in.
Adviser Suu Kyi took power in November 2015 when the National League for Democracy (NLD) party he led won overwhelming victory in the general election, and succeeded in re-establishing power in the general election held in November last year. And was detained.
Myanmar citizens “dare to call Aung San Suu Kyi torture a fool”Meanwhile, the Myanmar military ministry hired a lobbyist to “solve the misunderstandings of the international community,” and allowed the CNN coverage team to enter the country, but was evaluated as refraining from bloody suppression during their visit and showing only relatively calm places.
Earlier, Israeli-Canadian lobbyist Ari Benmenash, hired by the Myanmar military, said he had arranged for a CNN interview team to visit Myanmar.
Local media Myanmar Now reported citing relatives and friends that at least six of the citizens interviewed with the CNN coverage team were detained in military facilities, and a CNN spokesperson said they were aware of the incident.
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