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Andrea Bruce
The Washington Post

"Female Circumcision"


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The midwife comforts Sheelan Anwar Omer, 7, after cutting part of her genitals in a circumcision using a new razor. “This is the practice of the Kurdish people for as long as anyone can remember,” said the mother, Aisha Hameed, 30, a housewife in this ethnically mixed town 150 miles north of Baghdad.
 

 

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