Over 100,000 killed since coup in Myanmar

TT

Published 08.42

 

Fire and smoke rise after an airstrike by Myanmar's military junta in Rakhine state in January 2025. Image provided by the separatist movement Arakan Army. Photo: Arakan Army Via AP/TT

More than 100,000 people have been killed in civil wars in Myanmar in the past five years, according to conflict monitor Acled.

The death toll since the military coup in 2021 is at least 100,114, according to the independent American Acled (Armed conflict location and event data).

The coup – which overthrew the elected leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi – triggered a civil war in which both the ruling military junta and armed opposition groups have committed abuses against civilians.

“I am so deeply resentful and very angry. But I don’t even know who to be angry with anymore,” Thein Aye Nu, whose husband was killed in an airstrike last month, told AFP.

Analysts consider Myanmar’s civil war to be Asia’s deadliest active conflict. According to the UN, more than 3.7 million Burmese are displaced within the country’s borders.