Pitcairn : The secret of Sexual Crimes

Beneath the stunning natural beauty, the island in the South Pacific turned out to keep a terrible secret : sexual violence against girls for generations. Pitcairn is included in the British colony, although the practical English to let the island operate alone. The governor of Pitcairn occasional visit, but the island has a system of self-government even police officers and court officials. Only in 1997, for the first time, a British police officer assigned to the Pitcairn. Gail Cox, community police, was sent for training. When she returned there in 1999, things have changed. Until finally, some teenagers had told Cox that they had been raped. Cox, who only had handled cases of traffic violations was destroyed by a dark secret that she found. Apparently, sexual violence against girls has become endemic in the island which includes British territory. Almost no girls who escape from sexual violence, and nearly every man alleged to be perpetrators. Almost five years have passed since the investigation began, September 2004 , twenty-nine people from outside the island arrived at Pitcairn for criminal cases in which perhaps the strangest British criminal history. They consist of legal officials, diplomats, police officers and journalists. The men with serious criminal records are no longer able to live and travel outside the island. On the island British Government has developed infrastructure and communications, but apparently, there mindset still has not changed.

How can small communities in remote areas that could change the negative? Sexual violence seems to grow in small places are isolated, and Pitcairn had all the requirements:
1. Region is very small.
2. Very remote.
3. What makes it effective, closed community.
4. There was no officers from outside, so the local residents make their own rules.

( Reader Digest Indonesia, in October 2009 ).

Pitcairn Islands

For you who like to learn geography, may seldom or never heard of this place. Pitcairn Islands is a collection of five islands, where the only inhabited island of Pitcairn, which lies on the southern Pacific Ocean, the only British colony in the Pacific. The Island is also a country although not free with a population of at least the world with about 50 residents in 2008. Since the highest population reach 233 in 1937, many of them emigrated, mainly to New Zealand. The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors, and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships, most of which are plying the United Kingdom to New Zealand route via the Panama Canals. Pitcairn is one of the two world's most remote places inhabited ( after the Tristan da Cunha ). Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world.

Letter Opener

Letter Opener or paper knife was first made in England, a country that has the oldest tradition of correspondence in the world. Unique-handled knife has been used in the United Kingdom in the 17th century BC. Letter opener is more popular used by citizens in the tradition of old correspondence. People tend to prefer Indonesia tore open the envelope rather than a tool.

Several reasons that make people love collecting, among others :
1. A Letter Opener made from various types of materials. Most are made of stainless steel.
However, there is also the creative made of wood, plastic and or jade.
2. Most-shaped letter opener blade. There is a smooth sharp. There were jagged. In addition,
could also shape the keris, like that produced Malaysia. While Indonesia has made in the form
of rencong ( Aceh ) and sickle ( Batam ).
3. Handle on a letter opener that made him unique.
Letter opener from the Netherlands for example, complete with a windmill that can spin.
Then the French image of Napoleon' face and the other side illustrated the tower of Eiffel.
Meanwhile from Jakarta ondel-ondel picture.
From Australia kangaroo or koala- shaped.
From Thailand and Afrika elephant-shaped.
Portugal made a chicken-shaped handle.
Japan produces a complete of replika samurai with its sheath.