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Across Myanmar, over 5,275 pagodas were reported destroyed.", "seriesTitle": "7.7 Earthquake", "photographer": "Zide" }, "CanvasBG_w19_01": { "title": "By the Numbers", "medium": "Photograph", "attribution": "editorial", "file": "wall 19/00.jpg", "seriesTitle": "By the Numbers", "seriesContext": "Verified statistics on the human cost of Myanmar's civil war since the February 2021 military coup, compiled from AAPP, ACLED, UN OCHA/UNHCR, Data for Myanmar, and Myanmar Witness.", "description": "Since the February 2021 military coup, over 6,000 civilians and pro-democracy activists have been killed by the military. Total conflict deaths are estimated between 60,000 and 70,000, according to AAPP and ACLED.\n\nFighting and arson have forced over 3 million people to flee their homes inside Myanmar, with tens to hundreds of thousands more escaping to Thailand and India, according to the UN.\n\nReports from Data for Myanmar and Myanmar Witness show nearly 3,000 airstrikes on schools, hospitals, and villages, and over 80,000 burned homes. At least 100 massacres have been documented, including major attacks in Pazigyi, Mo So, Let Yet Kone, and Kanan.", "descriptionBurmese": "၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းပြီးချိန်မှစ၍ ယနေ့အထိ စစ်ကောင်စီ၏ တိုက်ရိုက်အကြမ်းဖက် ပစ်ခတ်မှု၊ စစ်ကြောရေးတွင် သတ်ဖြတ်မှုနှင့် လေကြောင်း/လက်နက်ကြီး ပစ်ခတ်မှုများကြောင့် ဒီမိုကရေစီရေး လှုပ်ရှားသူများနှင့် အရပ်သား ၆,၀၀၀ ကျော် အပါအဝင် စစ်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ ပဋိပက္ခတစ်ခုလုံးကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ စုစုပေါင်း ၆၀,၀၀၀ မှ ၇၀,၀၀၀ ဝန်းကျင်အထိ ရှိခဲ့ကြောင်း AAPP (နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသားများ ကူညီစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအသင်း) နှင့် ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) တို့က ဒေတာအထောက်အထားများနှင့်တကွ သုတေသနပြု စာရင်းထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည်။\n\nUN OCHA (ကုလသမဂ္ဂ လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှုဆိုင်ရာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေးရုံး) နှင့် UNHCR တို့၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်များအရ တိုက်ပွဲများနှင့် စစ်ကြောင်းထိုး မီးရှို့မှုများကြောင့် စစ်ကိုင်း၊ မကွေး၊ ကရင်နီ၊ ကရင်၊ ချင်းနှင့် ရခိုင် ပြည်နယ်/တိုင်းတို့မှ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ဘေးရှောင် (IDP) ဦးရေမှာ ၃ သန်းကျော်အထိ မြင့်တက်လာခဲ့သည့်အပြင် ထိုင်းနှင့် အိန္ဒိယ နယ်စပ်များသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်ရသူ သောင်းဂဏန်းမှ သိန်းဂဏန်းအထိ စာရင်းများအရ ရှိလာခဲ့သည်။\n\nထို့ပြင် Data for Myanmar နှင့် Myanmar Witness တို့၏ စိစစ်ချက်များအရ စစ်ကောင်စီသည် စာသင်ကျောင်း၊ ဆေးရုံ၊ ဘာသာရေးကျောင်းများနှင့် ကျေးရွာများအပေါ် ကြိမ်ရေ ၃,၀၀၀ နီးပါး လေကြောင်းမှ ဗုံးကြဲတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး အရပ်သား နေအိမ် ၈၀,၀၀၀ ကျော်ကိုလည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့ကာ၊ ပဇီကြီး (သေဆုံး ၁၆၀ ကျော်)၊ မိုဆို (သေဆုံး ၃၅ ကျော်)၊ လက်ယက်ကုန်း စာသင်ကျောင်းနှင့် ကနန်းကျေးရွာ ဖြစ်စဉ်များကဲ့သို့ အရပ်သား ၅ ဦးထက်မနည်း တစ်ပြိုင်နက်တည်း အစုလိုက် အပြုံလိုက် သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရသည့် ဖြစ်စဉ်ပေါင်း ၁၀၀ ထက်မနည်း ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့ကြောင်း စိစစ်အတည်ပြုထားသော အရင်းအမြစ်များ၏ ဒေတာများက ဖော်ပြနေပါသည်။" } } }