TRC Final Report

Volume 4

Chapter 10

Subsection 2

14 Table 3 breaks down the violations into four broad categories of attempted killing, killing, severe ill treatment and torture. The first column provides the percentage of reports of this category reported by women. It shows, for example, that while, overall, women accounted for 70 per cent of reports of killings, they accounted for only 19 per cent of reports of torture. The second column indicates the percentage of women’s reports of this category where the woman said she herself was the victim. Here women are seen to be most likely to present themselves as victims of severe ill treatment. The third column gives the percentage of all reports (with known sex) of self as victim where the deponent was a woman. Women are again under-represented among those reporting torture. The fourth column indicates, for each centre, what proportion of primary victim women deponents reported each of the four categories. This column reveals that, overall, a full 8 per cent of women deponents who were themselves victims, spoke about severe ill treatment.

Table 3: Women’s reports of gross human rights violations by type of violation