Section C
1. Seventy-seven percent of the children had witnessed killings, and more than a third had seen family members killed. Half of the children had been beaten or tortured, and many were abducted by guerrillas and forced to commit acts of violence.
Individual interviews with 105 of those children indicated that most suffered from recurrent nightmares, feelings of guilt, and aggressive tendencies. But more disturbing- and more relevant to Somalia(索马里)- is that the children exposed to the most prolonged trauma became the most dysfunctional, experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome.
