50 Part II: Challenges and opportunities Some of the key findings from the IMLU team included the following: • More than 400 torture survivors had been remanded at nearby Bungoma Prison after being charged at the local law courts. The prison’s officer-in-charge noted that this represented an almost doubling in the number of prisoners since the operation began. • Almost all of those interviewed claimed it was the military that carried out the torture, though a few also admitted to being tortured by the police during the time of arrest or transfer to stations/courts. All but one of the torture survivors interviewed were drawn from the Sabaot ethnic community. • The forensic medical examination of 119 survivors revealed that 85% had severe soft tissue injuries with wounds, 10% had moderately severe soft tissue wounds and another 5% had minor soft tissue wounds. • The examinations also revealed wounds concentrated on specific body parts, thus pointing to “a systematic way of torture”. • An IMLU team of psychologists documented the psychological after-effects of torture, including how 74% of the torture survivors interviewed exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. IMLU’s findings corresponded with testimonies and evidence gathered by other human rights groups, including Western Kenya Human Rights Watch, the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and the Kenyan National Commission for Human Rights. IMLU submitted its documentation of the Mt Elgon abuses to numerous oversight bodies, including the Parliamentary Committee on Defence the UN Committee against Torture (CAT) and several other UN mechanisms. In its November 2008 Kenya observation report, the CAT specifically condemned the Mt Elgon incidents, and cited the need for the Kenyan government to “further ensure that perpetrators are prosecuted and punished according to the grave nature of their acts, that the victims who lost their lives are