5 3. METHODOLOGY Members of the Amani Trust clinical team interviewed 139 internally displaced people. These refugees were being housed in two tented camps at Cleveland Dam and Coronation Park. Questions in the survey covered demographics, a medical assessment of their past and current condition, the farm workers experience of violence, a narrative of their story in their own words and finally a list of their material losses and resources available to them. The interview form drew strongly on a protocol originally developed by the AMANI Trust in its work with survivors of organised violence and torture from the Liberation War of the 1970s 4. It was slightly adapted for the present survey, but generally covers the issues regarding torture that are recommended in the Istanbul Protocol recently adopted by the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights of the United Nations. 4. RESULTS Results of the questionnaire are displayed with both the actual figures and as a rounded up percentage of the total number of cases. 4.1 Demographics As can be seen from the table below, there were more men than women in the sample, but this survey did manage to include a reasonable percentage of women. This is important because political violence against women is widely reported anecdotally, and there is generally little concrete information on women from the current violence. Sex Male Female Number 80 59 Percentage 58% 42% The data regarding marital status are unremarkable in most ways, with most being married as might have been expected in a group from a “settled” population. Most commercial farm workers have been resident on farms for many years, and even grow up in families that were resident on commercial farms. Marital Status Married Single Divorced Widowed Number 87 34 15 3 Percentage 63% 24% 11% 2% Out of the people who had or were still married, 90 cases were traditional marriages, 1 was polygamous, and 2 were church/civil marriages. Type of employment Farm labourers Farm guards Cattle herders Number 91 (65%) 4 5 Foremen Supervisors 6 2 Tractor drivers Carpenter Clerks Sprayer 2 1 2 2 Unknown 15 Type of employment Gardener/tailor Grader Horticultural worker Flower cutter Irrigation foreman Irrigator Gardener Mechanic Orchard supervisor Number 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 See AMANI (1997), Assessment of the Consequences of Torture and Organised Violence: A manual for field workers, (revised), HARARE:AMANI. AMANI TRUST: Preliminary Report of a Survey on Internally Displaced Persons from Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe.