The lights are dim and the voices quiet. Tension fills the
room where Nafisa, a six-year-old Sudanese girl lies on a bed in
the corner. Her aunt, 25-year-old Zeinab, watches protectively as
her niece undergoes the procedure now known as female genital
mutilation (FGM), formerly called female circumcision. In this
procedure, performed without anaesthesia, a girl's external sexual
organs are partially or totally cut away.
Zeinab does not approve. For the past year she has been trying
to persuade her mother and sister to spare Nafisa from the
procedure. She lost the battle with her family, but she will stay
at her niece's side. She watches Nafisa lying quietly, brave and
confused, and remembers her own experience.
Zeinab underwent the procedure twice. At six years old she had
the more moderate form of FGM, called Sunni, in which the covering
of the clitoris is removed. When she was 15 the older women of her
family insisted she have the......

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Title: Genital Mutilation In Sudan
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