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Police Reform – 2000

It was very difficult to evaluate reforms in the police force or in gendarmerie after the signing of the two accords in 1999 as neither accord was very clear about police force reform. The only provision related to the police was that which specified the reinstatement of policemen to the jobs they abandoned to join the rebel movements. After the accord was signed, between 500 and 600 ex-Ntsiloulous were integrated into the police force.¹ Similarly, an estimated 1000-1500 ex-Cobras were accepted into the police force,² as well as an estimated 500-600 ex-Cocoyes.³ Most of the reinstatements took place before 2002.

1. Anders Themner, Violence in Post-Conflict Societies: Remarginalization, Remobilization and Relationships. (London: Routledge, 2011), 56.
2. Ibid., 66.
3. Ibid., 77.