The questioned pertained to what tragedy the refugee personally experienced or witnessed. Where they present when their village was attached, did they fled and if so with whom. Did they witness torture, murder, where they injured and if so, what injuries did they sustain?
The case studies initially involved 476 Sudan refuges new to the United states, Average age was 17 and 84% were boys, The data collected ended up being only form 286 participants. 87% of the youth interviewed had been in the US more than 6 months. In their fact finding 93% said that their village was attacked, 74% were in the village at the time of attack, 60% witnessed friends family tortured, 74% witnessed injuries 76% observed murder. The refugee suffered personal trauma, 47% near drowning, 32% near suffocation 31% head trauma and 26% loss of consciousness (Geltman,