N %12 Zanu PF 120 45% Police 71 27% Zanu PF youth Activists 58 37 22% 14% War Veterans CIO 30 30 11% 11% Militia 23 9% Army Green Bombers Military 15 12 4 6% 5% 2% MDC Unknown Total cases 3 15 267 1% 6% Table 8: Reported perpetrators of torture Not surprisingly, Zanu PF members were implicated in 45% of the reported cases, followed by members of the police (27% of cases), and Zanu PF youth (22% of cases). In a number of cases, activists, “war veterans”, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) members, and members of the militia were also responsible for inflicting torture. Members of the MDC opposition movement represented only 1% of all perpetrators thus further corroborating previous findings which are skeptical of the contention that the violence in Zimbabwe is primarily a result of inter-party conflicts. 4 ASSESSING LEVELS OF TRAUMA AND ASSISTANCE PROVISION 4.1 Clinical assessment As part of the clinical assessment of its clients, the ZTVP administers a Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ8), a widely-used psychiatric screening instrument developed in Zimbabwe, which investigates 8 common symptoms in the past week. The SRQ8 was derived from the SelfReporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) developed by the World Health Organization in 1980 to provide an instrument for reliably detecting non-psychotic mental disorders and used widely in 12 Percentages do not up to 100% because clients were allowed to give more than one answer to this question. 13