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Shan state, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in August 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 1 eventP of organized violence in Shan state, Myanmar in August 2026. The best estimate of deaths in this event is 1P. UCDP counts this death as the death of a civilianP. The count for July 2026 was 1 eventP.

The count for August 2025 was 7 events. The change from August 2025 to August 2026 is down 86 percentP. Among the 21 months with a report for Shan state, Myanmar, August 2026 has the 17th highest count of events. Shan state, Myanmar holds 2 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Myanmar in August 2026. In August 2025, the share was 10 percent.

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

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

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. Shan state, August 2026: the events of the month, in the order of their dates
DatePlaceSides, as UCDP writes themType of violenceEstimated deathsPLowHigh
3 Aug 2026Kyaukme district, Shan stateGovernment of Myanmar (Burma); PSLFState-based111

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. Shan state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of August 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Myanmar (Burma)1P1P
PSLF1P1P

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 Shan state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20261P1PCandidate Events
August 20261P1PCandidate Events
July 20261P3PCandidate Events
February 20261P1PCandidate Events
December 2025212GED
November 202513GED
October 20251346GED
September 202537GED
August 2025720GED
July 2025819GED
June 2025218GED
May 202558GED
April 202523GED
March 2025221GED
February 2025917GED
January 2025627GED
December 202458GED
November 20241243GED
October 20241133GED
September 2024944GED
August 20241235GED

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.

Shan state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Shan state, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in August 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/myanmar/shan-state/month/2026-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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