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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Police in Papua New Guinea collared a teen suspected of picking the pocket of a soldier and dispensed their own justice: The officers beat him, slammed his head into a truck and burned him, the youth told human rights researchers.
The case of 16-year-old Steven E. was documented in a new report from Human Rights Watch that found that police in Papua New Guinea routinely beat, rape and torture children. The Pacific nation's internal security minister admits the country has "lost its way."
"When they were burning me, they were saying things like, 'Rotten kids running around spoiling the place, just another stupid kid in town,'" Steven E. told the New York-based group. "Two of them were burning me at the same time."
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