WASHINGTON, D.C. — Children made up nearly 40 percent of the more than 3.4 million people in Myanmar displaced by civil war and climate change-driven extreme weather, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said on Thursday.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military deposed 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government on Feb. 1, 2021, and launched a crackdown that sparked an armed uprising against the junta's rule.