Social Torture by Chris Dolan

Author:Chris Dolan [Dolan, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857452917
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Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2011-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Physical injuries were also very evident. IOM found in 2001 that of 3,769 Gulu IDP camp residents surveyed, 282 or an extraordinary 7.5 per cent, had suffered an injury in the month prior to the survey. Of these, 161 were caused by gunshots (IOM 2001, table 11). Landmine incidents were ongoing during the period of the research, as were cases where children died after picking up unexploded ordinance which then blew up (see Chapter 5). While there is no systematic data on deaths in the camps where we conducted fieldwork, anecdotal evidence suggested that deaths amongst children and young adults were high (Table 6.3).

Such a list suggests that people were dying very young, with malaria a major killer among small children, and TB, AIDS and poisoning as major causes of premature deaths among adults.

While deaths and injuries did not compare to situations such as the Rwanda genocide, they were nonetheless significant relative to the size of the population. Gersony records about 1,000 war injuries leading to hospitalisation over the period January 1996 to March 1997 alone. And contrary to his estimate that deaths throughout the war ‘would be measured in the tens of thousands, rather than in the hundreds of thousands’,15 the EU in its resolution of July 2000 estimated the total number of deaths at over 100,000 (point E).

Table 6.3 List of Deaths Recorded by Fieldworkers in Awer and Pagak Camps, July1999 to March 2000, Sorted by Age of Deceased

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