Across Myanmar, thousands of civilians have been killed in violence that has taken many. In villages and towns, this violence has reached homes, markets, schools, hospitals, churches, and monasteries, turning places of everyday life into scenes of mass death.
This project documents massacres against civilians attributed to the Myanmar military and affiliated forces. Here, a massacre means one incident in which at least five civilians were killed.(1)
By Caroline Pyae
Data coverage: March 14, 2021 – September 24, 2026
The Scale
- RECORDED FATALITIES
- 5,274
- DOCUMENTED MASSACRES
- 504
Documented Massacres and recorded fatalities by year (* 2026 is up to September 24.)
The number of documented massacres and recorded fatalities increased over time.
Interactive map
Scroll to reveal the map of documented cases.
Larger circles show locations with more documented massacres. Each massacre is mapped to the most specific reported location available, down to the village level when possible. Some locations are approximate.
Age and gender tell us only part of who they were.
BY AGE
- Adults
- 4,701
- Children
- 573
By Gender
- Women
- 805
- Men
- 2,425
- Gender not identified
- 2,044
“Gender not identified” means a victim’s gender was not stated in the available reports.
Each massacre is counted once under one primary method.
Larger circles show methods recorded in more massacres.
When a massacre involved more than one method, we recorded the method linked to the most deaths.
Each bar shows recorded fatalities under each primary method.
Airstrike were linked to 2,821 recorded fatalities, 53% of all fatalities in the dataset.
Across these massacres,
the Myanmar military, acting alone or with affiliated forces, repeatedly targeted and killed civilians.
Every number was a person.
Every person had a name, people who loved them, and a life beyond this record.