Liberia journalist in hiding after genital mutilation expose
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MONROVIA A Liberian journalist says she has been forced into hiding after lifting the lid on initiation rituals, including genital mutilation, by a secretive womens society.
Mae Azango, a reporter with Liberian daily Front Page Africa, published a story on March 8 in which a woman recounted how when she was a child she was held down and had her clitoris sliced off by members of the Sande Society.
The society is an initiation school where women and girls are sent to be circumcised and groomed to be prepared for marriage, as culture and tradition demand in the west African state, Azango wrote.
Azangos story was illustrated with pictures of initiated teenage girls emerging from the bush..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120329com5.html
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