A review of eighty kneecapping victims found that only two had a fractured kneecap. See "Kneecapping and Status Symbols". The IRA pledged to stop kneecapping in 1983, and both shootings and beatings drastically declined. Sam Ibrahim was charged in 2004 with the kneecapping of two men in Newcastle. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report on kneecapping in Bangladesh.