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Civilian deaths in Myanmar ‘higher than reported’

Soldiers stand next to military vehicles as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon in February 2021. (Photo: Reuters)

OSLO: More than 6,300 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published on Tuesday by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.

“Our data shows that the human toll of the conflict is higher than previously reported, and while the junta is clearly the main killer, anti-junta forces also have large amounts of blood on their hands,” Stein Tonnesson, one of the two co-authors of the report, said in a statement.

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