BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar people displaced within their own country are expected to increase by about 30% to 4.5 million next year, according to a United Nations projection, as the conflict there widens.
"A new wave of fighting was ignited in October 2023" when armed resistance groups staged coordinated attacks against the military, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says in a report released Friday. "Since then, the intensity of fighting across Myanmar has continued to escalate, with civilians bearing the brunt of the increasing levels of violence."
