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He urinated into her mouth

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By PNG Echo With her nephew dead in the driver’s seat of the car from a gun shot wound and another man wounded and bleeding following a police chase, Londe Pindia was dragged, resisting, from the back seat of the same car by police at the scene. She was afraid. In particular she feared being raped by the police. But run-of-the-mill rape wasn’t depraved enough for this creature who was being paid to uphold the law. Londe was ordered to lie down and open her mouth while he urinated into it and ordered her to drink it. This incident brings Continue reading He urinated into her mouth→

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Raising the status of women in Papua New Guinea

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By PNG Echo. Was she joking? She said that she didn’t think political parties should be forced, by law, to drag women into parliament against their will. It conjures up pictures of cave men dragging women screaming by the hair into the Haus Tambaran à la Fred Flintstone. Delilah Gore, Honourable Minister for Religion, Youth and Community Development and Member of Parliament for Sohe, was commenting on proposed legislative changes before Parliament that would require political parties to ensure that 10 per cent of their candidates endorsed for national elections were women. Does she really think that there aren’t any Continue reading Raising the status of women in Papua New Guinea→

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