A staggering 3.414 million Papua New Guinea women may experience intimate partner violence this year, according to statistics provided by the country’s National Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Secretariat this month. They are women like 29-year-old Lina Numbalihi, who was allegedly tortured to death by her husband, who is a member of the PNG Defence Force. She was a mother of two, and at the time of writing, her husband was still at large.
The PNG Post Courier newspaper reported National Capital District Assistant Police Commissioner Ben Turi as describing the case . . .
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