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Andrea Bruce
The Washington Post

"Female Circumcision"


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Sheelan Anwar Omer, 7, enters a room looking for the party her mother had promised. As a local woman closed the door behind her, her mother told her to take off her underwear.
“I do this in the name of Allah!” intoned the midwife before conducting the female circumcision. .
 

 

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