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Gang Rape on the Rise in Papua New Guinea

TRUSTLAW A gang of security personnel at one of Papua New Guinea’s largest gold mines allegedly brutally beat and raped a woman and left her for dead at one of the mine’s waste dumps. When her husband discovered what happened, he demanded a divorce while she was still bedridden and recovering from her wounds. Another woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW)  that one of the guards at the Canadian-owned Barrick Gold mine in Porgera – a lush, remote and impoverished part of the country’s highlands – kicked her in the face for resisting a gang rape, shattering her five bottom teeth and three top teeth. Yet another said she and three other women were raped by 10 security personnel, one of whom forced her to swallow a used condom he had used while raping two other victims. Their stories and others, recounted by the rights group in a recent report on alleged abuses at the mine over the past three years, make for a harrowing read. Even worse, after apparently suf

Gang Rape on the Rise in Papua New Guinea

TRUSTLAW A gang of security personnel at one of Papua New Guinea’s largest gold mines allegedly brutally beat and raped a woman and left her for dead at one of the mine’s waste dumps. When her husband discovered what happened, he demanded a divorce while she was still bedridden and recovering from her wounds. Another woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW)  that one of the guards at the Canadian-owned Barrick Gold mine in Porgera – a lush, remote and impoverished part of the country’s highlands – kicked her in the face for resisting a gang rape, shattering her five bottom teeth and three top teeth. Yet another said she and three other women were raped by 10 security personnel, one of whom forced her to swallow a used condom he had used while raping two other victims. Their stories and others, recounted by the rights group in a recent report on alleged abuses at the mine over the past three years, make for a harrowing read. Even worse, after apparently