The civilian death toll in Myanmar since the February 2021 coup surpassed 4,000 as of August 24 as the junta escalated its campaign of atrocities against its own people, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which monitors civilian casualties and arrests by the regime.
At least 1,080 civilians were killed between January 1 and August 24 of this year, as the junta intensified attacks on civilian targets, the AAPP estimated.
An average of 130 civilians are killed each month by junta airstrikes, shelling, gunfire and other methods, it said.
Junta forces killed nearly 3,000 civilians between February 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022.
The resistance stronghold of Sagaing Region suffered the highest number of civilian causalities as junta troops conducted frequent raids, massacres, indiscriminate shelling and airstrikes in both rural and urban areas.
Nearly 1,800 civilians were killed in Sagaing (45 percent of the total civilian death toll) while tens of thousands of homes were incinerated in the region by junta forces since the military takeover.
So far this year, more than 600 women civilians were killed and 18 rape cases were reported, the AAPP reported.
