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Female circumcision surfaces in Iraq
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Aug 10, 2005 01:46pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 07:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | KIRKUK, IRAQ - Set on an arid plain southeast of Kirkuk, Hasira looks like a place forsaken by time. Sheep amble past mud-brick houses and the odd sickly palm tree shades children's games. There is no electricity.
Yet along with 39 other villages in this region that Iraq's Kurds have named Germian (meaning hot place), Hasira and its people have become noted for presenting the first statistical evidence in Iraq of the existence of female circumcision, or female genital mutilation (FGM), as critics call it.
"We knew Germian was one of the areas most affected by the practice," says Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, director of a German nongovernmental organization called WADI, which has been based in Iraq for more than a decade.
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