Townships shaded by events, 2025. Townships with no recorded event are left white.
2025 against 2024, per day
Events
1,031
2.8 per day · 2.8 per day in 2024 (+2%)
Deaths
951
2.6 per day · 2.2 per day in 2024 (+20%)
Civilian deaths
272
0.7 per day · 0.5 per day in 2024 (+41%)
Who is killed
Deaths by side, per month
Kachin
- 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
Kachin
- Fire on civilian targets
- Air and drone strikes in fighting
- Other
2025: fire on civilian targets 75% of civilian deaths, air and drone strikes in fighting 1%, other 24%.
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, 40, mostly fire on civilian targets (33).
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
Kachin
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.
Weekly calendar
Deaths by week, 2025
- No recorded death
- 1–2
- 3–6
- 7–12
- 13–24
- 25–200
Deadliest week: 29 September – 5 October 2025, 96 deaths. Half the year's deaths fell in 11 of its 52 weeks.
Each square is one week, Monday to Sunday; a week belongs to the year of its Thursday, as in the Annual Review. The darker the square, the more deaths were recorded that week. The last days of 2025 (29–31 December) fall in a week that ends in 2026 and are not shown.
All 18 townships
| Hpakant | 448 | 428 | 126 | +108% |
| Bhamo | 202 | 292 | 66 | +57% |
| Waingmaw | 89 | 34 | 16 | −50% |
| Mohnyin | 76 | 62 | 9 | +112% |
| Myitkyina | 40 | 4 | 4 | −43% |
| Khaunglanhpu | 29 | 7 | 1 | +315% |
| Tsawlaw | 28 | 13 | 8 | +101% |
| Puta-O | 23 | 1 | 0 | +110% |
| Tanai | 23 | 18 | 17 | +28% |
| Shwegu | 21 | 65 | 11 | +5% |
| Mogaung | 12 | 13 | 3 | −7% |
| Mansi | 7 | 4 | 4 | −92% |
| Machanbaw | 6 | 3 | 0 | +502% |
| Injangyang | 4 | 0 | 0 | +101% |
| Momauk | 4 | 7 | 7 | −97% |
| Chipwi | 3 | 0 | 0 | −95% |
| Sumprabum | 2 | 0 | 0 | −87% |
| Nawngmun | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Events placed to a township only. 0 means nothing was recorded. "—": no recorded event in 2024.