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Raskols: Gangs of Papua New Guinea
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Raskols: Gangs of Papua New Guinea

51 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Port Moresby carries a grim ranking: in 2020, the second most violent capital city in the world, just behind Caracas. This film follows police units waging an unrelenting campaign against the Raskol gangs that control whole neighborhoods through robbery, extortion, and tribal score-settling, including one clan dispute that left 32 dead in a single summer. Interviews with officers, gang members, and residents lay out a city split between obscene wealth, fueled by a real estate boom built on the country's mineral wealth, and entrenched poverty that leaves little room between the two. The film spends real time on the toll paid by women, citing surveys where 80% of men admit to regularly abusing their wives, and visits the handful of shelters trying to offer protection while attackers go largely unprosecuted. Corruption threads through every level shown, from street patrols to the connections that let the wealthy insulate themselves from the violence surrounding them. The result is a street-level portrait of a capital city that functions as two cities occupying the same map.