It is interesting to note that in our survey of 100 IDPs reported on in October 2005,106 we predicted that: Only 21% of respondents seem likely to stay where they have been currently placed.107 The survey respondents of October 2005 were a different group of IDPs to those followed in our detailed case histories and graphed above, but the 2005 prediction and the current findings of only 19% left in the rural setting, bear each other out. We concluded in October 2005 and conclude again now: Whatever reasons people had to leave rural areas and head to urban centres in the first place, those reasons still remain and have not disappeared as a result of the demolitions. However, the costs paid by those displaced have been enormous. As the following histories will relate, families have fragmented, marriages have collapsed, people have died. There is almost not a single child left in school out of our entire case history group. The last year has seen the wettest summer and the coldest winter in memory, which has created misery, severe illness and death for those living in tiny shacks. Families who have moved back to Killarney and Ngozi Mine live in appalling conditions. Their current shelters are less robust than those knocked down: people still live in fear of further demolitions. Many of those living here are vendors, and they have to carry out their daily attempt to earn money in the impossible situation described already in this report, in its analysis of the informal trading sector. Police harassment Harassment is constant. Police sweep regularly through both Killarney and Ngozi Mine. In July 2006, police pounced on Killarney and arrested over a hundred people, mainly women, children and the elderly; all the able bodied young men ran away, leaving the most vulnerable. Those arrested were kept in appalling conditions for two days, were harangued and finger printed and accused of being illegal and criminals. No charges were laid against them, but the intimidation was intense. Photo 7: This woman in Killarney has had her home knocked down eight times in the last year. 106 “Preliminary findings of survey of 100 IDPs”, in Crime of Poverty, op cit, pages 65-70. This prediction was based on an analysis of the combinations of replies by those dumped in rural areas, to three questions: Do you feel welcome where you are now? Explain: Are you happy to stay where you are now? Explain: If you had the option, would you go back to where you were living in May 2005? See pp 68-70, ibid. 107 52