Far from Ukraine and Gaza, Another War Just Killed 50,000 People

[sarisataka]

Far from Ukraine and Gaza, Another War Just Killed 50,000 People

Unmarked by global street protests or quarrels over funding in Congress, three years of war in Myanmar have killed an estimated 50,000 people since the army seized power in the Southeast Asian country.

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) ranks Myanmar as the most violent of 50 wars it monitors around the world, noting the hundreds of small militias that have formed to fight the junta since the February 1, 2021, coup against elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

The project told Newsweek it estimates a death toll of at least 47,000 in violence in Myanmar since then, including at least 8,000 civilians, but says that figure is conservative and that the total death toll could well be another 12,000 higher, including a further 2,000 civilian deaths.

"The number of attacks by the military over the years has been massive, but there has been kind of an increase with the rebels taking over more and more territory at the end of the year," Andrea Carboni, ACLED's head of analysis, said in an interview.

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I have been familiar with this conflict since I participated in helping refugees from the Karen community settle here during the height of the Covid pandemic.

[Bettie]

1. Another religious war

More people dead because they don't talk to the "right god" in the "right" way.

Every day, my belief that religion causes more division than it does good grows stronger.

[sarisataka]

5. The conflict is primarily ideological and ethnic with little to do with religion

the country is overwhelmingly Buddhist.

The NLD (a pro-democracy party) won in a landslide which threatened the military's influence. Under the constitution (written under military rule) gave them the power to appoint 25% of parliamentary seats. The military claimed fraud blaming minority ethnic groups (sound familiar?) and launched a coup in 2021.

You may be thinking of the Rohingya people, who are primarily Muslim. The experienced a genocidal campaign under the previous junta about a decade ago. (That genocide also received very little notice.)

[Arazi]

2. Thank you for bringing this. It doesn't involve Jews though

So it’s not news even though 50,000 civilians are dead.

😡

(The hypocrisy of the left ignoring far worse slaughters and singling out the only Jewish state on the planet continues… )

The Rohingya are another displaced population of 1.5 million that are managed by UNHRC. They don’t have a special agency just for them either (and yes, UNHRC is operating in this war zone too)

[limbicnuminousity]

3. And a genocide in process.

[Lonestarblue]

4. I am aware of the massacres in Myanmar.

Between its military and its religion, minority groups have suffered mightily. I had hoped for improvement when Aung San Suu Kyi was elected s a civilian leader, but that too fell by the wayside. Whether she was actually guilty of corruption or not, the military got rid of her.

There are too many places round the world now where people have to live in fear for their lives, among them several in Africa. I haven’t read anything recently about the ravages of Russia’s Wagner Group now that Putin murdered their leader, but I’m sure they’re still creating havoc.

[Marcus IM]

6. I remember Qwackanon tRumpsters admiring the coup in Myanmar and hoping their dear leader would do the same. eom