Myanmar civil war toll tops 100,000 - Taipei Times

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If there had been no coup, children would be studying at schools, said a man whose teenage son was killed in combat while fighting for pro-democracy rebels

AFP, YANGON, Myanmar

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 yesterday.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.

Mourners grieve as bodies are laid out at a cemetery before their burial following a military airstrike at a hospital that killed more than 30 people in Mrauk-U, Myanmar, on Dec. 11 last year.