2015 in Myanmar

The following lists events that happened during 2015 in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

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See also:	Other events of 2015 History of Myanmar Timeline

Incumbents

• President: Thein Sein
• First Vice President: Sai Mauk Kham
• Second Vice President: Nyan Tun

Events

January

• January - An estimated of 1,000 people reported to have been displaced due to the clashes.^[1]

February

• February 13 - 2015 Kokang offensive
  • In the northeast, 47 soldiers were killed in fighting against Kokang rebels.^[2]
• February 14 - 2015 Kokang offensive
  • The Burmese government launches airstrikes against the Kokang rebels.^[3]
• February 15 - 2015 Kokang offensive
  • Around a dozen Kokang rebels by the Myanmar Army and another eight are captured.^[4]

March

• March 3 - Myanmar students on a march to Yangon to protest an academic bill defy a police order to disperse in Letpadan Township.^[5]
• March 13 -
  • China sends fighter jets to the border of Myanmar after an attempted bombing of rebels on Chinese land kills 4 people.^[6]
  • A ferry sinks off the Burmese coast, leaving 21 dead and 26 missing.^[7]

April

• April 19 - 2015 Kokang offensive
  • Burmese authorities claim that 126 Burmese soldiers died in clashes with the Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army in Kokang since February.^[8]

May

• May - 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
  • 469 Rohingya from Myanmar on two boats reach western Indonesia^[9] have been turned away by the Indonesian Navy. Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees also arrive in Malaysia but are detained.^[10] The Myanmar Navy rescues two boats with 208 migrants during international pressure to make the Rohingya citizens of Burma to end the refugee crisis.^[11]
• May 23 - President Thein Sein signs the Population Control Health Care Bill requiring parents to space each child apart by three years.^[12]

July

• July 16: 2015 Myanmar floods

August

• August 10: Black Ribbon Movement Myanmar
  • A movement of medical professions and medical students against the appointment of military officers to positions within Ministry of Health.^[13]

November

• November 8: 2015 Myanmar general election
• November 22: 2015 Hpakant jade mine disaster
  • A major landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar killed at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing.^[14]