Moments before Myanmar’s most fatal earthquake in a century, General Zaw Min Tun defended the military government, dismissed claims for war crimes and spoke about the Rohingya.
Just before an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit the center of Myanmar, General Zaw Min Tun sat down with Talk to Al Jazeera. In a strange interview, the military government spokesman defined the military rule amid the growing armed resistance, imminent judgments of war crimes and international condemnation. Hours later, the entire villages had left and thousands were dead. While Myanmar faces war, disaster and diplomatic isolation, this interview captures a country on the edge and a government that tries to endure.