Bogaletch Gebre will never forget the day when her aunts led her to the circumciser’s hut in their rural village in Ethiopia. The terrified 6-year-old girl cried out in excruciating pain as the rusty knife slashed her genitals, mutilating her young body to bind her to a life of servitude to males. In the background, beyond her own muffled screams, she… return to article
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