An in-depth Study on the impacts of Operation Murambatsvina Mutare and Bulawayo respectively. The general trend observed above, of trauma due to Operation Murambatsvina, remains the same across the three sites: lack of food or water being the most frequent across all three sites. Table 6: Frequency of responses on Trauma Questionnaire [Percentages and ranks] Harare Bulawayo Mutare [n=570] [n=386] [n=239] Lack of food or water 73.3% [1] 79.5% [1] 79.5% [1] Ill health without access to medical care 47.4% [2] 43.9% [6] 51.2% [5] Lack of shelter 51.9% [4] 32.2% [6] 48.5% [5] Imprisonment 23.7% [14] 15.8% [14] 16.7% [16] Serious injury 13.4% [17] 25.1% [13] 18.7% [10] Caught up in combat 36.8% [7] 30.4% [11] 16.6% [13] Rape 8.4% [22] 4.9% [22] 5.2% [23] Forced isolation from others 18.8% [13] 30.5% [10] 13.9% [15] Being close to death 27.2% [12] 31.9% [7] 17.9% [14] Forced separation from family members 33.5% [8] 18.7% [10] 36.4% [8] Murder of family or friends 8.8% [21] 6.7% [20] 8.8% [21] Unnatural death of family or friends 22.9% [15] 8.3% [18] 13.4% [17] Murder of stranger or strangers 3.7% [23] 1.04% [23] 9.6% [20] Lost or kidnapped 11.2% [20] 6.7% [20] 8.4% [22] Severe beatings 32.1% [9] 32.9% [5] 34.3% [9] Torture 22.5% [16] 30.3% [8] 20.1% [12] Motor traffic accident 17.2% [17] 13.9% [15] 22.6% [11] Industrial accident 16.5% [18] 7.5% [19] 12.1% [19] Natural disaster(flood, fire, etc) 39.7% [7] 17.9% [12] 59.8% [2] Any other situation that was very frightening or you felt that your life was in danger 55.4% [2] 33.4% [4] 59% [3] Confiscation or destruction of property 53.9% [3] 40.9% [3] 48.9% [4] Sexual abuse other than rape 15.9% [19] 9.9% [17] 17.9% [14] Feeling dependent on others 43.2% [6] 28.8% [9] 33.1% [10] *xl 4.1.4 Trauma types over the years: As was seen above, when we classified items on the trauma scale into hypothetical classes Operation Murambatsvina [OM] and Organized Violence and Torture [OVT] - we found strong correlations between these classes and psychological disorder, as measured by the SRQ-8. We also found strong agreement between the sites over the relative frequencies of the individual trauma items. We then next examined the relationship between the frequency of trauma types over time, since it is important to understand the cumulative burden of trauma. As can be seen from Table 7 below, there was variation between the three sites over the past few decades, and this variation corresponds to the known facts about events during these times. For example, people living in Matabeleland were much more likely to suffer trauma in the period 1980-1987 than people living in other Provinces, with the combination of the mass violence accompanying Gukurahundi as well a number of very severe droughts during the 1980s. Over the years Mutare shows greater frequencies of reported trauma than the 18