General information
Type of Incompatibility: Not applicable
Territory: DR Congo (Zaire)
Date of first battle related death: 2002-09-05
Date of conflict reached 25 battle releated deaths: 2002-09-15
Comment on conflict reached 25 battle releated deaths: The FRPI, RCD-K-ML coalition first became active as a one-sided actor in UCDP data in 2002 when the one-sided violence resulted in more than 25 civilian deaths. The threshold was reached in September of that year when the coalition conducted a massacre in Nyankunde town, resulting in over 1000 civilian deaths.
Annual information
This section contains annual information systematically collected by the UCDP.
2002
Primary Parties: FRPI, RCD-K-ML - Civilians
Dimension: One-sided
| Estimated Fatalities | |
|---|---|
| High | 3000 |
| Best | 1200 |
| Low | 1200 |
Numbers include fatalities for all dyads both active and inactive for this year
Conflict Archive
This section contains annual information no longer systematically collected by the UCDP.
2002 Conflict Archive
Comment on Activity: In 2002, the coalition of FRPI/RCD-K-ML attacked the town of Nyankunde in the Ituri district of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nyankundu had around 14 000 inhabitants, mainly from the Ngiti, Bira and Hema ethnicities. Tension between the Ngiti on the one side and the Bira and Hema on the other side had been high, up to the point where the Ngiti were forced to leave the town. They retaliated under the umbrella of the FRPI together with the RCD-K-ML and massacred over a thousand civilians.
Terminated: NO
