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I\'ve arrived at the with
the circumcision season

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Over 850 girls were circumcised
here during the last season.

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But that was before the launch of a United
Nations Population Fund initiative.

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I\'ve heard that some girls
have now been inspired to

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rebel against the practice
but as I watched hundreds

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gathering I realized that
many Sapeornis are unable

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or unwilling to abandon this
harmful aspect to back culture.

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I come after weeks of
preparation to be initiated

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into adulthood if they refuse
the risk social rejection.

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Amazingly female circumcision
is officially sanctioned.

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Who\'d have thought that all
over the village girls were

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having make literary says
cuts off without anesthetic.

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What\'d bizarrely innocuous start
to a season of bloodletting

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a senior district representative
officiate its inverse.

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I declare. It\'s like I\'m going
to say that Moody\'s opec.

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One family is not participating
in the celebrations.

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Jackson to quake2 has spearheaded
the campaign against

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female circumcision since his sister
nearly bled to death rows with

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circumcised while pregnant
she was lucky thousands

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actually die some becoming continent
others in fertile or infected

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Many suffer childbirth complications.

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Like Jackson\'s mother-in-law
are permanently crippled.

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So why they strongly feel that

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when a woman is circumcised then
has sexual desires reduces.

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They don\'t understand that the desire
for sex comes from the brain know

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the fill and strongly feel that desire for
sex comes from Nick liters which is removed.

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And do they feel that women should
have lower sexual desires than

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men yes they strongly feel
that once you are a woman

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Wife of somebody then you should have less
sexual desires in order not to go out.

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In this patriarchal environment
Jackson quite rightly

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recognizes that he will get nowhere
without targeting the men.

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But making them understand the dangers of
female circumcision is an uphill struggle.

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And poor Jackson often has to provide free
drinks to hold his audience\'s attention.

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Jackson\'s program which includes
targeting the young and educated.

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This is a model that could easily
be copied in other parts of Africa.

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Jackson has created a system whereby
school girls try to enlighten that has.

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One of Jackson\'s most dedicated
recruits this batty.

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But even among the young
and educated superstitions

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and backward attitudes
are deeply entrenched.

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And you just feel like
because my parents were

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the same size as you do
also get circumcised

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in order to be will then goes
Energy Blue follow what they say.

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You are just using other
thing correct you\'d

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love to attain circumcision
or female circumcision.

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There have been seen that the if they

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liberalized guarantee that it
will avoid the prostitution

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Drew all the I guess the DCT.

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Dc does not true because you find that
even clients who are circumcised.

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Absolute cancel off Adam
South are guiding me.

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In towns to impose to share.

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I remember my brother was
told that unless you matter

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in circumcised woman and
if you matter than with no

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circumcised and in fact
it is only you are just

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putting yourself into
problems because every

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time she EVERNOTE then there
should be looking for

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other boys are adamant
when you\'re not around.

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If big L is not circumcised she
will be followed by demonic.

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Spirits is truly Rob

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It is not true because periods.

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I don\'t think they will come.

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That the campaign has created a
few converts Betty\'s friends

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the material Sisters of 13 and their parents
feel it\'s time for them to come of age.

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Originally the sisters were destined to
be circumcised like their mother and

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grandmother before them. Welcome them.

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Is that place matters not back numbers.

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Their father material invited
me to the family home

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the day before their official
coming of age ceremony.

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Before you get my book job
do you want to do a teacher

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You want them to get it. You want
them to stay here. I wonder.

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Today\'s proceedings are
also about daddy\'s which

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is listed on our team

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has decided that his girls will have an
alternative rite of passage devised by Jackson.

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The basics of BUT culture is
acknowledged and retained.

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While the harmful practices jettisoned
there\'ll be no cutting and no blood here.

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Happily tell me why you\'ve decided not to

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put your daughters through the
traditional circumcision ceremony.

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There\'s no use waste of
money to circumcise.

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Sometimes they\'ll go and depressive

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much if perhaps but who cares at
least his duties remain and tracked.

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How many daughters to have
good $15 How many wives could

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3315 goals from 33 ladies

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and your wives were they circumcised
Yeah the old customization.

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And do you think your wife
suffered because they were

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circumcised very much even me myself.

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How did you suffer I was also second thing.

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Though I felt like yeah I suffered.

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Unlike most men in the village he
is not using the fact that he is

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somebody who has an excuse for imposing
circumcision on his daughters.

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Adult hindrances replace childhood
Claire\'s and good socket

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and to symbolize the start of a new phase
in the lives of the motel sisters.

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But elsewhere in the village blood flows.

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Both boys and girls can become outcasts for
showing the slightest iota of pain or fear.

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Even blinking is seen as
a sign of characters.

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What topsy turvy culture insists
that submission is strength.

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I was desperate to understand how those who

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inflict this terrible
anguish on the young and

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justify their actions so I spoke to the
woman who was described as a surgeon.

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How does female circumcision benefit women

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get repeatedly

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How well does the regimen will you

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circumcised and the law Mandy man named
Daniel Wang given Manichean in one room.

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And you\'re in the Gibeon lithium but even
Linda giving gallium above water universally.

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Surely there are other ways

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Which Sabine women cannot
esteem and acceptance.

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Young girls walk away that
loping stained with blood.

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They can hardly walk.

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This is what we call a
welcome into womanhood.

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How can I respect any culture that induces
this misogyny masquerading as African custom.

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This young girl\'s home.

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And she\'s very grapes it\'s not crying.

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You wouldn\'t believe that within
the past hour a vital parts of

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her anatomy sliced off without anesthetic

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She seems almost dazed it\'s hard to
tell whether this is courage or pain.

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Well there must be pain.

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It\'s just difficult to understand
why she\'s not some tears.

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In your very very brave girl.

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Undisturbed everything you say
about culture but I\'m speaking now

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about those emotions that have nothing
to do with culture as a mother.

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How do you feel morally radio
modelling we will revisit our vendor

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And then another mono known
unimodal and your mama

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winner minimum would either
motto within the world.

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Do you want your daughter to drop like

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a traditional CPD women
suffering from birth to grave.

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Thank you wants a better
future for your daughter.

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Mundane image cavity atom
there whatever Daniela.

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And another colleague
Pamela but haven\'t luck

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I just pair up and for some of these women
then passivity and collaboration with male

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inspired dictates harm them their sisters
their mothers and their daughters.

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Do you sometimes feel as if you\'re
fighting a losing battle with

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the people here or do you feel
it\'s a battle you can when I

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have hope that with the education
continuous education people may later come

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to to realize the limited
hours they own the resources.

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I was the director
associate of this country.

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I would even feel that 50% of the resources
should be directed to ensure that everybody

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It\'s a matter of life and death.

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Now. Everybody gets to
know what is bad about it.

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I can\'t say I\'m sorry to be leaving.

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I\'ve seen women stripped of
dignity and basic human rights.

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But there is hope.

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As I leave capture where nearly
400 counts have promised

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Jackson that they will never subject
themselves to genital mutilation.

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6 thousand girls continue to
be mutilated daily in Africa.

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Africa definitely needs more Jackson\'s