Four years since the coup. The resistance holds half the country.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
3.5 million internally displaced
6,486 civilians killed (including 751 children)
2,165 air strikes in 2025 (through November)
1,831 attacks on healthcare since the coup
71% of civilian casualties caused by the military
December 20, 2025
ICJ genocide hearings scheduled for January
The UN's top court announces it will hold hearings on Myanmar genocide case in January. Witnesses from Myanmar's Rohingya community will address closed-door ICJ sessions. The case, originally brought by The Gambia, concerns the 2017 military operations that killed thousands and drove 700,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh.
December 18, 2025
US aid cuts devastate Rohingya refugees
Trump administration cuts to foreign aid force Rohingya girls into early marriage and children into hard labor in Bangladesh camps. With World Food Programme rations slashed, families face impossible choices. TPS status for Myanmar nationals also terminated, affecting thousands in the US.
December 17, 2025
Regime claims Aung San Suu Kyi "in good health"
Following concerns raised by her son Kim Aris, the military regime claims deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "in good health." She remains imprisoned, serving sentences totaling 27 years on charges widely seen as politically motivated. She has been held largely incommunicado since the coup.
December 13, 2025
Military defends hospital bombing
Myanmar military claims armed groups were using Mrauk U hospital before the December 11 strike that killed at least 33. International observers reject this justification. The pattern continues: bombing civilian infrastructure, then blaming victims.
December 11, 2025
Hospital bombed in Rakhine State
Military aircraft bombed Mrauk U General Hospital. At least 33 killed including health workers, patients, and family members. Operating rooms and the main inpatient ward completely destroyed. The 67th verified attack on health facilities this year. UN rights chief Volker Turk: "Such attacks may amount to a war crime."
December 2025
Elections held amid violence
Myanmar's first election since the coup proceeds despite the war. Most opposition leaders remain imprisoned, including Aung San Suu Kyi. Domestic and international observers denounce the vote as an attempt to legitimize military rule.
The military controls major cities. The resistance controls an area larger than Belgium in Rakhine alone.
December 2024
Western Command headquarters falls
The Arakan Army captured the Tatmadaw's Western Command headquarters in Ann, Rakhine State. The second regional command to fall to ethnic rebels in five months.
2023-2025
Rakhine State largely liberated
Since the ceasefire broke down in 2023, the Arakan Army has pushed the military out of 14 of Rakhine's 17 townships.
March 28, 2025
7.7 magnitude earthquake
A devastating earthquake struck central Myanmar. More than 3,600 dead, thousands injured, over 10,000 structures destroyed. A brief pause in fighting followed—but air strikes continued.
Unable to hold territory, the military has turned to air power. From January through November 2025: 2,165 air strikes. That's more than all of 2024 (1,716 strikes). Targets include hospitals, schools, villages.
The military can't win on the ground. So it bombs from the sky.
Background: On February 1, 2021, Myanmar's military seized power, overthrowing the elected government. What followed was not submission but resistance. Students, workers, ethnic armed groups, and ordinary citizens formed a nationwide uprising. Four years later, the resistance controls more territory than the military.
This is not a conflict between equals. The military has air power, artillery, foreign support. The resistance has numbers, territory, and the will of most of the population. The cost falls on civilians—bombed hospitals, displaced families, children killed.
The world has largely looked away. This page is one small attempt to look.