By the end of the rebellion in 1960, 100,000 suspected rebels had been incarcerated and at least 12,000 were dead.

Reprisals against rebels and suspected rebels began right away and lasted for weeks in a highly public and distressing campaign of repression.

Several hundred rebel prisoners as well as suspected rebels and sympathisers were subsequently hanged without a trial or much legal process.

The insurgency lead to the death of 4-5000 (unofficial) people and over 20,000 suspected rebels mostly youth were arrested in the amnesty period that followed.

Throughout the country, government forces continued to arbitrarily arrest and detain civilians and suspected rebels, often on the basis of ethnicity, and subject them to cruel and unusual punishment.