More than one million displaced since Myanmar coup: UN


Children attend a class in a temporary shelter at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township in Myanmar's Kayah state in this file photo taken on Oct 18, 2021. - AFP

YANGON (AFP): More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said.

The South-East Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government last year, sparking widespread armed resistance.

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