Sixteen-year-old boy who described being beaten by police with a gun butt in 2003. "The police didn't bash me up easily," he said. "They wanted to beat me until I was dead. Even when I surrendered, I still got hit on the head."

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Fifteen-year-old boy who said police in Port Moresby beat and cut him in September 2004. "One policeman cut my hand with a pocket knife," he told us. "He was holding my hand tightly when he cut it, but I wasn't handcuffed. All the policemen were holding me. They were saying things like, "You are the troublemaker."

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Boy who said he was shot in the legs by police.

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Sixteen-year-old boy who described being burned by police with sticks of cured tobacco in Wewak during interrogation. "When they were burning me, they were saying things like, 'rotten kids, running around spoiling the place, just another stupid kid in town.'"

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Informal market in Port Moresby. Vendors told Human Rights Watch that police beat them and destroyed their betel nut and other goods.

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