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. 2020 Aug 20;14:60. doi: 10.1186/s13031-020-00306-9

Table 2.

Trauma events

Myanmar Bangladesh
Average number of trauma events experienced by Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Myanmar 19.4 1.0
Trauma event endorsement rate
 Exposure (i.e., hearing and/or seeing) to frequent gunfire 98.6% 1.6%
 Witnessed destruction/burning of villages 97.8% 2.0%
 Repeatedly exposed to violent images against Rohingya on websites (i.e., Facebook, RVision, TV, WhatsApp, etc.) 95.3% 88.7%
 Forced to do things against religion (e.g., eat pork, remove cap/niqab/veil, burn/cut beard, etc.) 94.9% 0.0%
 Threats against your ethnic group 93.3% 0.6%
 Home destroyed 93.1% 0.6%
 Witnessed dead bodies 91.8% 2.8%
 Witnessed physical violence against others 90.4% 1.4%
 Confiscation/looting of personal property 88.2% 1.2%
 Murder of extended family or friend 86.2% 0.2%
*Follow-up to above item: Family member was killed by security forces 100.0% N/A
 Threats against you or your family 83.7% 1.6%
 Forced to flee under dangerous conditions 83.7% 0.4%
 Extortion (i.e., paying money due to force or threats) 83.1% 2.8%
 Forced to hide because of dangerous conditions 75.5% 1.0%
 Death of family or friends while fleeing or hiding (e.g.,  not from violent injury like shooting or stabbing, but because of illness, lack of food, drowning etc.) 70.6% 2.0%
 Witnessed sexual violence/abuse of others 67.3% 0.8%
 Unjust detainment 63.3% 1.4%
 Present while security forces forcibly searched for people or things in your home (or the place where you were living) 56.9% 1.2%
 Torture (i.e., while in captivity you received deliberate and systematic infliction of physical or mental suffering) 55.5% 1.4%
 Forced labor (i.e., forced to do work that you could not decline, for example, patrolling, working for security forces, etc.) 48.6% 0.2%
 Beaten by non-family member 46.1% 1.6%
 Turned back while trying to flee 46.1% 0.2%
 Sexual abuse, sexual humiliation, or sexual exploitation (e.g., coerced sexual acts, inappropriate touching, forced to remove clothing, etc.) 33.3% 1.0%
 Murder of immediate family member (i.e., father, mother, sister, brother, husband/wife, or children) 29.5% 0.0%
*Follow-up to above item: Family member was killed by security forces 99.3% N/A
 Physical injury from being intentionally stabbed or cut with object (e.g., knife, axe, sword, machete, etc.) 29.4% 1.8%
 Disappearance of family member 19% 0.2%
 Beaten by spouse or family member 14.5% 3.0%
 Other serious physical injury from violence (e.g., shrapnel, burn, landmine injury, etc.) 9.2% 0.2%
 Forced Abortion (only female) 5.4% (of female respondents) 0.0%
 Physical Injury from being shot (bullet wound) 5.1% 0.2%
 Rape by security forces (i.e., forced to have unwanted  sexual relations with security forces)g 1.6% 0.0%
 Rape by others (i.e., forced to have unwanted sexual relations with a stranger, acquaintance, or family member) 1.2% 0.0%