Myanmar explained the issues related to the coup and demonstrating in the country in an interview that lasted for a CNN reporter.

CNN correspondent group was present in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, and the capital Naypyidaw from March 31 to April 6.

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In the conversation lasting for CNN, General Zaw Min Tun, Myanmar military spokesman affirmed that generals merely "protect" the country while investigating the "fraud" election.

"This is not the main island," General Zaw Min Tun said.

General Zaw Min Tun, Myanmar military spokesman, at the National Museum of Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on April 4.

There was a time when Zaw Min Tun mentioned Aung San, the founding hero of Myanmar, Dad of the State Advisor Aung San Suu Kyi, who was arrested by the army on half and accused of corruption.

If he was alive but saw the current situation, everything said: "I'm stupid, daughter," Zaw Min Tun said.

Myanmar fell into chaos from half, when the army occupied the capital, arresting the elected leaders, claiming to apply an emergency one year nationwide and committed to organize general elections.

The coup took place before the day of new legislators who were elected to the National Assembly meeting.

Zaw Min Tun said the emergency situation could "last 6 months or more" in "two terms" and "If the task is still incomplete".

"We are committed to doing," he said.

Many observers ask questions whether the military, the Myanmar executive forces over half a century, since 1962 to 2011, are willing to give up power again or not, whether the election is really "freedom and public

Zaw Min Tun indicates a type of reform that the military sale government shook hands performed in 2011 after the army gave up direct leadership, paving the way for the 2015 election, in which Suu Kyi won wine

"If we don't want her from the beginning, the process didn't happen," he said.

However, the 2008 Constitution compiled to allow the military to keep the power despite the administration of the country as a civilian government.

Zaw Min Tun also emphasized Suu Kyi, who is being arrested at home and does not appear in public from the coup, facing 5 charges, including illegal importers of the radio and violations of regulations

"What happened was due to national-level corruption, errors of state-level procedures. We are accusing truths," Zaw Min Tun said.

However, the allegations that the Myanmar army given was called "fabricated" by Suu Kyi's attorney.

"The number of frauds we discovered were 10.4 million. Valid votes announced by the Election Commission of about 39.5 million and the number of frauds accounted for a quarter of them," Zaw Min Tun said.

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The election committee denies a mass fraud behavior.

General Min Aung Hlang in Myanmar capital on March 27.

At least 600 people were killed since the protest movement exploded.

About 3,000 people were arrested, many people did not contact their families, unknown the status of death.

Dr. Sasa, representing the elected MPs in the overthrown parliament, on April 7 to save the United Nations.

"Blood bathing is real. It is coming, will more people die. I'm very afraid," Dr. Sasa said.

Zaw Min Tun blamed the protesters causing violence when "agitating" the crowd, confirming the security force to suppress because the protester "blocked the civil servant" to work.

"The crowd throws stones, shooting rubber guns at them, then taking sand to block the road, firing with homemade guns, throwing fire, throwing gasoline, forcing security forces to use force to suppress violence"

When asked why he compared the rubber gun with a rifle, Zaw Min Tun answered the security force using "minimal force".

"Someone will die when suppressing riots, but we don't shoot guns without complying with the process," Myanmar military spokesman said.

At the time of the interview, he said the number of deaths was 248, including 10 police officers and 6 soldiers, less than half of the figures that many human rights groups recorded.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund, 46 children died since the movement against the coup took place.

When asked about three teenagers died in the hands of security forces, including Kyaw Min Latt, 17, Htoo Myat Win, 13, and Tun Tun Aung, 14 years old, Myanmar military spokesman blamed the protester

"In some places, they provoke children to participate in violence. Therefore, they can be attacked when the security force suppresses the crowd", he said.

He affirmed that "could not afford" a child shot in the house, committed to investigating if this case happened.

Htoo Myat Win's father said his son hit the bullet when many gunshots entered his home window in Shwebo city on March 27.

"I dodged but my son was near the window and hit the bullet," he said, said the boy hit the bullet into his chest.

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"They are shooting at the protester before that, the protesters fled, we hid them for fear they could be arrested. The army must have determined their position in this neighborhood."

Video sharing extensively on social networks showed Htoo Myat Win's father cried behind the taxi, when he rushed to his son without life.

"I asked them that my son died of hitting the bullet, why did they say you died not because of hitting bullets?"

The military also excavated the body of a young protester, autopsy, claiming the bullet killing her not by police guns.

In another case, a military medical hospital affirmed that Kyaw Min Latt died of a motorbike in Dawei city.

"The doctor told my son died due to injury because of falling car. We couldn't respond anything, only the way to agree," said Ms. Daw Mon Mon Oo said, said the results of X-rays

The boy's certificate wrote that Kyaw Min Latt died on March 30 for "brain injury caused by a motorbike".

When asked to accumulate allegations from the victims that soldiers have fired guns in their homes, while the army tried to cover the cause of death, Mr. Zaw Min Tun asked for evidence.

"If it's true, we will investigate," he said.

The reporter also asked why at least 11 people were detained immediately after talking to the group in Yangon.

Zaw Min Tun confirmed the security force caught three people in the first market, 8 others immediately after they contacted the reporter.

"Security forces worried they will agitate to others and initiate a protest at the market, which is why they are arrested," he said, said the army expressed "regret" about the arrest action.

The Funeral Arkar Thu Aung, a protester who was shot by Myanmar security forces in Kale, Northwest Country, on April 8.

The world is condemning strongly the coup and suppressing violent demonstration.

However, while Zaw Min Tun asserted that he would hold a future election, he warned Myanmar's democratic system would not be the same as the Western Freedom.

"Democratic nation which we are building is the country in accordance with Myanmar's history and geography. Democratic standards in Myanmar will not be the same as Western countries," he said.

Despite danger, the protesters of all Myanmar's social class continues to ask the army to pay for the power to the civilian government.

Unlike the generation of parents and grandparents, Myanmar youth mature in a certain level of democracy, politics and economy at a certain level.