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Table 3 Overview of participants' experience of traumatic incidents occurring since the start of the conflict (1994). (Participants could report more then one event)

From: The trauma of ongoing conflict and displacement in Chechnya: quantitative assessment of living conditions, and psychosocial and general health status among war displaced in Chechnya and Ingushetia

 

Chechnya

Ingushetia

n = 256

%

n = 283

%

Exposure to violent events

No exposure to conflict

15

6%

5

2%

Aerial bombardments

206

80.5%

220

77.7%

Mopping-up operations

206

80.5%

217

76.7%

Mortar fire

183

71.5%

194

68.6%

Attack on house/village

178

69.5%

205

72.5%

Cross-fire

158

61.7%

170

59.7%

Taking risks to find food

119

46.5%

125

44.2%

Burning of houses

114

44.5%

117

41.3%

Witnessed events

Arrests

136

53.1%

137

48.4%

Maltreatment

144

56.2%

126

44.5%

Killings

58

22.7%

68

24.1%

Torture

14

5.4%

16

5.6%

Rape

2

0.8%

7

2.5%

   Known instances of rape

181

71.1%

204

72.1%

Self-experienced events

Maltreatment

66

25.8%

58

20.5%

Detention and hostage

25

9.8%

27

9.5%

Kidnapped

18

7%

21

7.4%

Forced labour

15

5.8%

23

8.1%

Torture

7

2.7%

11

3.9%

Injured by mine

1

0.4%

5

1.8%

Arrests/disappearances:

   Nuclear family

57

22.3%

54

19.1%

   Extended family, friend, neighbour

71

27.7%

65

23.0%

   Friend neighbour

149

58.2%

118

41.7

   Other

126

49.2%

108

38.2

Material losses

Loss of house

249

97.3%

250

88.3%

Loss of all possessions

254

99.2%

268

94.7%