6 As can be seen from the table above, the sample reported a wide variety of occupations within the commercial farms, but labourers were in the vast majority. 4.2 Experience of violence A very high percentage (71%) reported an experience of torture or repressive violence, whilst 90 cases, or 65%, had had some experience of torture or repressive violence prior to the present episode. As was seen from the history reported above, the most recent episode was associated with their displacement. The sample also reported that many adults in their family had witnessed their torture. Here, 82 cases, or 59%, had had other adults witness their torture, and this was usually a spouse. Other family members were also reported as having experienced violence: 76 cases, or 55%, had a similar experience to the interviewee. More disturbingly, children were not exempt. The interviewees reported that children in their families had witnessing the violence in 77 cases, or 55%. The sample reported having a total of 865 children between them, with 527 children still resident on the farms. 4.2.1 Physical Assaults As can be seen from the table below, physical assaults was common, with beatings of one kind or other the most common. This table does not give the frequencies with which the sample experienced assaults, and this will be given in the fuller report. The frequencies are important however as these persons reported more than one encounter with organised violence and torture. Type of assault Slapping or kicking or punching Blows with rifle butts, sticks, whips or irons Exposure to extreme cold or heat Hanging or suspension Prolonged standing or crouching Submarine, immersion, asphyxiation, strangling Burning Electrical shocks Rape 4.2.2 Number 46 58 Percentage 33% 42% 39 10 28 6 28% 7% 20% 4% 5 1 4 4% 1% 3% Deprivation The forms of deprivation seen in the table below relate partly to the effects of the displacement itself, when people were forcibly moved off the farms from which they came. However, some of the forms of deprivation were experienced at the same time as people were assaulted or at during the forced attendance at “pungwes” (see Section 6 below). Type of deprivation Deprived of food, comfort or communication Incommunication, minimal food and comfort, overcrowding Lack of water (more than 48 hours) Immobilization, restraint, total darkness (more than 48 hours) Lack of sleep (less than 4 hours per night) or 5 days or longer Lack of needed medication or medical care or more than 48 hours Number 72 Percentage 52% 53 38% 36 34 26% 24% 52 37% 27 19% AMANI TRUST: Preliminary Report of a Survey on Internally Displaced Persons from Commercial Farms in Zimbabwe.