Genital Mutilation Experience

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I felt like throwing up, disappointed and deceived. I felt very scared; I’ve never felt like that in my life. I unexpectedly observed the chiefdom's head together with his traditional practitioners of female genital mutilation lined up in the room, head to head other 12 younger girls I believed unwelcomed the ceremony.

It took eight harmful traditional circumcisers women to hold me down, whereas one holds a knife, cut my clitoris, which has been removed with no anesthesia, antibiotics or sterile technique. It hurt. I was bleeding severely onto a rock after being cut. I was dressed in a towel and led into another room and smeared with a powder in my face to show I have undergone the rite of passage. I felt extreme pain and experienced issues

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