A military policeman kills his wife and mother of his three children for refusing to have group sex in Papua New Guinea

The country is one of the most dangerous places in the world for women and girls

A soldier allegedly beat his wife to death because she refused to have group sex in Papa Nueva Guinea, considered one of the countries with the highest rates of sexist violence in the world, according to official sources.

The chief inspector of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Police, Charles Winuan, indicated that the events took place on Saturday and that the soldier, attached to the military policeis accused of the murder of his wife and mother of his three childrenaccording to the local newspaper this Wednesday The National.

Winuan specified that the man, who had been drinking with other soldiers, gave a punched his wife in the face and hit her on the head with a bottleafter refusing to have group sex.

The Armed Forces indicated in a statement that “the matter is in the hands of the Police, who are investigating it” and added that they will not make any statement while the investigation is ongoing, but that they take any violation “very seriously.” of its code of conduct, including “any type of unauthorized violence”.

According to the police account, the soldier had asked his wife last Saturday to wait for him in his bedroom. in a military barracks in Port Moresby while out with his friends.

He man came back early morning with a group of colleagues and a young woman after spending hours drinking and, then, he ordered his wife to participate in a group sex session, which she refused, so she I allegedly gave him a beating.

The woman died from the head injuries she sustained.

Papa Nueva Guinea, a country rich in natural resources and which has 40% of the population of 9.4 million inhabitants living in poverty, has been considered as one of the most dangerous places in the world for women and girls.

Two reports of Human Rights Watch de 2021 y 2022 pointed out that close to two thirds of women are victims of domestic violence in Papa, where there are also cases of attacks against women accused of witchcraft in remote and inaccessible areas of this country that continues to be the scene of armed tribal clashes.

Human Rights Watch denounced in the report the culture of impunity, corruption and anarchy, as well as a worsening of violence against women and minors that have resulted in cases such as that of the boxer Debbie Kaorefwho published in 2020 a video on social networks in which he appeared hitting his partner with an iron in front of his children.

Of the 15,000 cases of domestic violence reported in that country in 2020only 300 alleged attackers were prosecuted and a hundred of them convicted, the NGO specified.