The ensuing post-election violence resulted in the death of 3,000 people, and the displacement of between a half-million to a million other people.Ben Batros, The ICC Acquittal of Gbagbo: What Next for Crimes against Humanity?, Just Security (18 January 2019). On 11 April 2011, forces loyal to Ouattara supported by the French and UN forces moved to seize Gbagbo at his residence in Abidjan after failed negotiations to end the presidential succession crisis. According to Ouattara, his forces established a security perimeter at the residence, where Gbagbo had sought refuge in a subterranean level, and were waiting for him to run out of food and water. The UN had insisted that he be arrested, judged and tried for crimes against humanity during his term and since the election of Ouattara.
