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Kayah

Data from 1 February 2021 to 31 December 2025.

Townships shaded by events, 2025. Townships with no recorded event are left white.

2025 against 2024, per day

Events

353

1.0 per day · 0.4 per day in 2024 (+136%)

Deaths

326

0.9 per day · 0.6 per day in 2024 (+39%)

Civilian deaths

99

0.3 per day · 0.2 per day in 2024 (+80%)

Figures as CSV

Who is killed

Deaths by side, per month

Kayah

  • 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

Kayah

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

2025: fire on civilian targets 88% of civilian deaths, air and drone strikes in fighting 0%, other 12%.

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, 29, mostly fire on civilian targets (27).

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

Kayah

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
  • 3–5
  • 6–11
  • 12–23
  • 24–143

Deadliest week: 2–8 June 2025, 40 deaths. Half the year's deaths fell in 7 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 7 townships

Demoso1118116+486%
Loikaw919412+43%
Hpruso3953+878%
Hpasawng366962+13%
Bawlake33673+121%
Mese500—
Shadaw500−69%

Events placed to a township only. 0 means nothing was recorded. "—": no recorded event in 2024.

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