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Magway region, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in August 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 9 events of organized violence in Magway region, Myanmar in August 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 22. UCDP counts 22 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for July 2025 was 9 events.

The count for August 2024 was 6 events. The change from August 2024 to August 2025 is up 50 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Magway region, Myanmar, August 2025 has the 9th highest count of events. Magway region, Myanmar holds 13 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Myanmar in August 2025. In August 2024, the share was 10 percent.

The report of the country for this month: Myanmar, August 2025.

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 .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

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

Table 1. Magway region, August 2025: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsLowHigh
4 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based111
10 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based333
12 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based111
16 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based222
22 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based222
24 Aug 2025Magway district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based555
26 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based111
30 Aug 2025Magway district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based111
31 Aug 2025Pakokku district, Magway regionGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); NUGState-based666

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Magway region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Myanmar (Burma)922
NUG922

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.

All months

Table 3. Monthly reports of Magway region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20268P20PCandidate Events
August 20266P12PCandidate Events
July 20266P29PCandidate Events
June 20264P11PCandidate Events
May 202610P60PCandidate Events
April 20268P16PCandidate Events
March 20262P27PCandidate Events
February 20265P14PCandidate Events
January 202610P18PCandidate Events
December 2025712GED
November 20251019GED
October 202559GED
September 2025510GED
August 2025922GED
July 2025915GED
June 2025612GED
May 2025625GED
April 2025610GED
March 20251561GED
February 2025937GED
January 20251015GED
December 20241322GED
November 2024126GED
October 20241342GED
September 202416GED
August 202466GED

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Magway region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Magway region, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in August 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/myanmar/magway-region/month/2025-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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