A new study reports alarmingly high rates of torture survivors are living in Minnesota's African immigrant communities. The Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of Torture conducted the study. It found 44 percent of immigrants from Somalia and from a part of Ethiopia known as Oromia experienced torture in their homelands. More than eleven hundred people participated in the study, making it the largest of its kind in the country. Previous studies had estimated the rate of torture among recent African immigrants at no more than 35 percent. Dr. David Johnson was on the team that conducted the study. He says torture among Oromo men was higher than among the women, but the opposite is true in the Somali community.