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Kachin state, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in May 2026

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UCDP recorded 3 eventsP of organized violence in Kachin state, Myanmar in May 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 4P. The low estimate is 4 and the high estimate is 8P. UCDP counts 4P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2026 was 5 eventsP.

The count for May 2025 was 2 events. The change from May 2025 to May 2026 is up 50 percentP. Among the 24 months with a report for Kachin state, Myanmar, May 2026 has the 7th highest count of events. Kachin state, Myanmar holds 6 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Myanmar in May 2026. In May 2025, the share was 3 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Myanmar, May 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

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Events

The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Myanmar has each event.

Table 1. Kachin state, May 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
7 May 2026Mohnyin district, Kachin stateGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); SCEFState-based111
17 May 2026Mohnyin district, Kachin stateGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); SCEFState-based333
19 May 2026Mohnyin district, Kachin stateGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); SCEFState-based004

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Kachin state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Myanmar (Burma)3P4P
SCEF3P4P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Kachin state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20261P0PCandidate Events
August 20265P10PCandidate Events
July 20261P2PCandidate Events
June 20263P16PCandidate Events
May 20263P4PCandidate Events
April 20265P3PCandidate Events
March 20261P30PCandidate Events
February 20266P8PCandidate Events
January 20261P22PCandidate Events
December 202513GED
November 202522GED
October 2025130GED
September 2025739GED
August 2025813GED
July 202511GED
May 2025230GED
March 2025231GED
February 2025310GED
January 2025426GED
December 2024331GED
November 202419GED
October 202423GED
September 2024333GED
August 202412GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Kachin state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Kachin state, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in May 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/myanmar/kachin-state/month/2026-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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