(Adnkronos) – The clashes in Myanmar have caused a total of 100,114 deaths, after five years ago the army ended a decade of democratic experience in the Southeast Asian country, overthrowing the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and arresting the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This was reported by the American NGO Acled (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data), which records incidents reported by the media. Anti-coup demonstrations were suppressed by security forces, but pro-democracy activists left the cities to fight the junta alongside armed movements composed of ethnic minorities long hostile to central power. There is no official toll and estimates vary widely, but analysts consider this conflict to be the deadliest currently ongoing in Asia.
Myanmar, ‘over 100,000 dead since the start of the civil war’
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