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Internally Displaced Persons – 2002

The security situation deteriorated with the constitutional referendum in January 2002. Ntsiloulous combatants, as well as a group affiliated to the Ntsiloulou leader, Ntoumi, were involved in several violent activities, including a Ninja rebel group’s attack on a train in April 2002. This led to an additional 75,000 displacements internally.¹ The spread of violence also led to the close of the humanitarian corridors used by international aid agencies. It was estimated that there were 68,000 IDPs by the end of 2002.²

1. Ibid., 24.
2. Ibid.