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Ancient Practice of Female Genital Mutilation Still a Threat to Iraqi Women |
| Section: CULTURE / PATTERNS |
| Author: Nicholas Birch |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 859 Words, 5,478 Characters |
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Set on the arid, pebble-strewn plain southeast of Kirkuk, Hasira looks like a place forsaken by time. Fat-tailed sheep amble past mud-brick houses and brushwood pens. The odd sickly palm tree provides shade for children's games. There is no electricity.
Germian and 39 other villages in this region of Iraqi Kurds have made their small place in history.
Surveyed by WADI, a German nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Iraq for more than a decade, the region has provided the first statistical proof of the existence of female genital m...
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... of Hasira, there is still plenty of work to be done. "I see nothing wrong with the operation, as long as it is done under anesthetic," said the translator, an educated urbanite. "Because they are unable to control their sexual urges, uncircumcised women are more likely to be deflowered before marriage. That, in our society, is a shameful thing."
Copyright © 2005 The Washington Times, LLC.
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