Hlaingthaya was incorporated as a township in 1989, following the
8888 Uprising, in order to resettle squatters in central Yangon. In 1995, FMI City, a gated housing development, was established in the township. After the 2008
Cyclone Nargis, thousands of
internally displaced refugees from the Ayeyarwady delta migrants re-settled in Hlaingthaya. although no official announcement could be found, the township had already been split in West and East constituencies for the
2020 Myanmar general election. In the aftermath of the
2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Hlaingthaya became a centre of anti-coup resistance. On 14 March 2021, the military and police forces committed the
Hlaingthaya massacre, killing at least 65 civilians and marking a major escalation in the military's use of force against civilians. == Commerce ==