This happened back in October but is an frightening example of the dangers of |female genital mutiliation|. At the end of October, 21 girls in Kenya had to be hospotailized due to serious infections they developed after being forced to undergo female circumcision.
The girls, aged 9 to 14, were pulled out of school by their parents to make sure the government would not interfere, and forced to undergo the procedure. Kenyan woman’s activist Naomi Okul told the BBC that in this case, “The traditional operators used dirty knives and most of the grisl ahve infections in their wounds.”
Kenya only outlawed female genital mutilation for girls under 17 a few months ago, and the high rate of the practice among some of Kenya’s peoples is believed partially responsible for that nation’s extremely high maternal mortality rate.
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Circumcision hospitalizes Kenyan girls. Muliro Telewa, The BBC, October 31, 2001.