• 74 per cent of the respondents had never heard of the Organ. • Of the 817 respondents who had heard of the Organ, 32 per cent gave it a positive rating of performing well or very well. • Of the same 817 respondents, 45 per cent rated it negatively, saying that it was performing badly or very badly. • The remaining 23 per cent had no opinion of its performance. The questions on the work of the Organ were asked in order to determine the effectiveness of the government in addressing issues of past political conflict, as this body was specifically created under Article VII of the GPA to help the nation move towards national healing, reconciliation and integration. The relative anonymity of the Organ was highlighted in the response of one elderly man (aged 71) who said, ‘I may lie to you about the Organ. I was not yet born when it was formed.’ The frequency of the ‘No’ answer indicates that there is need for the Organ to make itself more visible to the communities if it is to advise on a credible framework for national healing that is acceptable to the broader society. 3. Effect of human rights violations This section considers the effects of violence on victims, perpetrators and witnesses. The following are the highlights from Tables 4, 5 and 6: • 16 per cent of the respondents said that they were victims of past human rights violations. • Only 7 (less than 1 per cent) of the total of 3 189 respondents identified themselves as perpetrators. • 2 per cent of the respondents said that they had witnessed human rights violations. • 27 per cent said that their close relatives were victims of human rights violations. • 1 per cent said that their close relatives were perpetrators. • 48 per cent of the alleged violations had resulted in minor injuries to the respondents themselves. • 25 per cent of the alleged violations had resulted in major injuries to close relatives and 19 per cent in displacement. A total of 46 per cent of the respondents had been affected by some form of violation, either as victims or witnesses, or claimed that their relatives had been victims of violence. As has been indicated above, the number of perpetrators is insignificant. The bulk of the respondents (54 per cent) stated that they had neither witnessed nor experienced human rights violations. Transitional Justice Survey – A Report of the People’s Perceptions and Recommendations 13