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Casualties

Data from 1 February 2021 to 31 December 2025.

Who is killed

Deaths by side, per month

Myanmar

  • Military and pro-coup forces
  • Armed opposition groups
  • Civilians
  • Side not stated

Each recorded death is counted once. Where the source does not say which side a person was on, the death is shown as side not stated. Counts are minimums.

Civilian harm

Civilian deaths by method, per month

Myanmar

  • Fire on civilian targets
  • Air and drone strikes in fighting
  • Other

2025: fire on civilian targets 63% of civilian deaths, air and drone strikes in fighting 2%, other 35%.

Air and drone strikes on villages and other civilian targets are counted under fire on civilian targets.

Most civilian deaths in one month: August 2025, 450, mostly fire on civilian targets (276).

Air and drone strikes on civilian targets are recorded as fire on civilian targets, so they fall within the first series.

Fire on civilian targets: Violence against Civilians / Shelling / Artillery / Missile attack. Air and drone strikes in fighting: Armed Conflict / Airstrike, Drone attack. Other: all other events.

Beyond deaths

Arrests, displacement and releases, per month

Myanmar

People arrested

Recorded displacement events

People released

Each figure counts every event that recorded it, whatever the event's type: people displaced by a clash are recorded with the clash.

Displacement figures count events, not people.