Perpetrators are mainly, but by no means always, men.
The perpetrators were mainly white males aged from 15 to35.
The alleged perpetrators were mainly French soldiers from a unit known as the Sangaris force which was operating under authorisation of the security council but not under UN command.
Perpetrators were mainly patients.
Perpetrators were mainly patients, but some of the verbal aggression came from colleagues or superiors (16 cases, 12.7%).
Unknown perpetrators used mainly the threat of death to intimidate the victims, usually addressed in public spaces during daily activities.
In comparison, non-physical violence, perpetrators were mainly females (63.6%), of older age (36 60 years) (44.1%), not impaired (53.8%), and patients' relatives (42%), coworkers (37.1%), and patients/clients (21%).
The blood pours down the child and they don't even have pity for that blood there, the other comes, and does it without a condom" Diane, 42, female from Burkina Faso The origin of the perpetrators was mainly described as Moroccan (31.30%), Nigerian (26.09%), other sub-Saharan nationalities (14.78%), Algerian (10.46%) and "Arab" (5.21%).
The International Coalition for Papua of civil society and faith-based organisations notes a high level of violence where the perpetrators – said to be mainly Indonesian security forces – have widespread impunity.
When the perpetrator of terrorism is mainly motivated by religious views, then it is by definition religious terrorism.
