A ‘terror campaign’ is how human rights organizations describe what is happening in the center of Myanmar. In the Buddhist heartland, there are constant reports of burning villages, killing people, destroying homes and burning food sources. A scene set since the 2021 military coup that ousted the National League for Democracy party and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But in recent months, the rate of combustion has increased at an alarming rate.
In the first of this series of digital surveys, Bird’s Eye View, our team uses open source intelligence to find out what’s really happening on the ground.