Over 100,000 killed in Myanmar since 2021 coup, conflict monitor says

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Over 100,000 killed in Myanmar since 2021 coup, conflict monitor says
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The death toll since the 2021 military coup 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 resistance groups committed abuses against civilians.

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

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

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