The occurrence of forced internal displacement in the aftermath of ethnic violence between the Bodo and Bengali-Muslim communities in 2012 was one of India’s most severe humanitarian crises. With approximately 500,000 IDPs living in relief camps it represented the largest occurrence of forced displacement in India’s post-partition history. The Bodo Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD) region was created after the tripartite Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) of 2003 between the Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT), the Government of India (GoI) and the provincial (state) government of Assam. The paper examines key facets of the post-accord violence and presents an overview of the crisis. Findings on nutrition, healthcare, water and sanitation as well as habitat destruction indicate that the crisis actually continued in the post-emergency phase and especially after domestic humanitarian assistance was withdrawn (by both state and non-governmental