The attackers killed 18 loyalist soldiers, including 14 presidential guards whose throats were slit while they slept.

On June 1, Kolingba called on the other coup plotters to lay down arms and attempted to negotiate with Patassé, which the latter refused.

[3]: 10–11 On 6 July, the Central African chief of staff Abel Abrou, General Francois N'Djadder Bedaya and Commander Yambi were killed.

[3]: 11–12 [7][page needed] After a long trial by the Central African criminal court against 680 defendants, Kolingba (who had fled to Uganda) and 21 of his associates, including 3 of his sons, were handed a death sentence in October 2002.

[4]: 171 Over the course of the following two years, foreign fighters from Muammar Gaddafi's Libya as well as Congolese rebels from the MLC (led by Jean-Pierre Bemba) were deployed in combat against Bozizé loyalists.

[11]: 37  The MLC - partially composed of child soldiers - was later found guilty by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing war crimes during this intervention, including murder, rape, pillaging and torture.