For more than three years, wartime atrocities in Myanmar have been in plain sight for anyone willing to look. As pro-democracy and ethnic resistance groups fight against the military junta that seized power in 2021, civilians have inevitably been caught in the crossfire.
The biggest share of casualties is the responsibility of the military, which has the advantage of air power and uses it to strike combatant as well as civilian targets. Estimates of the dead range from around 5,300 to more than 50,000. More than 2 million people have been forced out of their homes, with many crossing the borders to neighboring Bangladesh and Thailand.
