DO THEY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU CRY
I just started reading a book called “Do they hear you when you cry” by Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir.This is a passage from it about Female Genital Mutilation.
“……during the procedure, four women spread your legs wide apart and hold you down so that you can’t move. And then, the eldest woman takes a knife that is used to cut hair and scrapes your woman parts off. There are no painkillers, no anesthesia. The knife isn’t sterilized. Afterward, the women wrap your legs from your hips to your knees and you have to stay in bed for forty days so the wound can close. After the forty days, you are ‘reborn’ for your husband, and delivered to his house to begin your new life as his wife.”
