Myanmar mourns as post-coup conflict death toll hits 100,000

YANGON (Myanmar), July 01 (AFP): More than 100,000 people have been killed across all sides in Myanmar since a military coup five years ago triggered civil war, a conflict monitor said on Wednesday.

The military ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ending Myanmar's decade-long experiment with democracy.

Anti-putsch protests were put down by security forces but activists quit cities to form pro-democracy guerrilla groups, fighting alongside ethnic minority armies that have long resisted central rule.

There have been 100,114 conflict-related fatalities since the coup, according to the latest data from monitoring group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), which tallies media reports of violence.