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Sierra Leone: Women Protest To Mutilate Their Daughters

Posted by avideditor on March 5, 2008

Konservo wrote this great blog post.

Sierra Leone: Women Protest To Mutilate Their Daughters: “

Come on, people! It’s the 21st fucking century!

FREETOWN (AFP) – Some 800 women in the Sierra Leone town of Kailahun paraded Tuesday in favour of genital mutilation and told donors opposed to the practice to keep their money, demonstrators and witnesses said.

Sierra Leone:

Demographics

  1. pop. 6,144,562 (July 2007 est.)
  2. Muslim 60%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs 30%

FGM/FGC (explicit illustrations)

(Via Dj Konservo.)

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