アフリカでの伝統のクリトリス削除、健康に危険、現在は減少
Las dos caras de la ablación
Assa Togo se ha ganado la vida con la mutilación durante 60 años
Con la lucha de una nueva generación de mujeres, la práctica disminuye en África
“La ablación no está escrita en el Corán”
Marta Castro Madrid 6 FEB 2013 - 10:17 CET
Both sides of the ablation
Assa Togo has earned a living for 60 years mutilation
With the struggles of a new generation of women, the practice diminishes in Africa
"Ablation is not written in the Koran"
Marta Castro Madrid 6 FEB 2013 - 10:17 CET
Assa Togo, 75, lives in the rural community of Tingolé, Mali, about 100 kilometers from Bamako, the capital. He has seven children and 20 grandchildren. From 15 years has made a living practicing FGM. He did it for the first time in Sudan, when looking for a job with which to feed his family. For He has made thousands of girls over the years. Before it was someone important in the village, an institution, the reservation of tradition, cultural identity. But that is changing in some villages even as Assa people are expelled.
Business is running out, you lose the tradition. She is aware of this: "I get a few requests now, before he could do about 100 ablations per year, just do a couple of them now." Tingolé neighbors reluctant to begin to show this practice to assess the risks, both physical and psychological, and no longer are willing to spend for it.
Genital mutilation is well established in 28 African countries and has been defended not only by men but also by women. The trauma passed from generation to generation, although lately shown as a recessive gene.
It may have something to do with it the work of Kadi Doumbia, who also lives in Tingolé, where approximately 98% of girls were subjected to FGM. She herself was years ago. "They destroyed my body through this abominable practice, I've gone through hell," he says. In each of her three births was near death from abdominal bleeding associated paralysis.
From victim to hero happened. In three years, and with the help of her sisters, has founded in his village and other neighboring villages a total of five associations that warn about the dangers of FGM. There are now 80 members who compose it. It features the town authorities, who are quite aware of the dangers of FGM and are convinced that only leads to the marginalization of women.
Kadi Doumbia / Plan
Initial success has pushed these women to be more active. Organize discussion groups, educational films and couples therapy with the help of local NGOs and also Plan, an international organization for the protection of the rights of local children. Kanté, a partner NGO, is optimistic about the end of the mayhem, although the Tingolé is a society of traditional and conservative: "For two years no girl has been mutilated in the town, and that's because the determination of a courageous woman as Kadi Doumbia has achieved unity and understanding of the entire community. "
For Fanta, 15, it's too late. Turn to the awareness courses taught in his village and acknowledge that you have learned a lot in them. "Now I know that FGM is wrong. I already went through it and what's done is done, but do not want my sister to have that experience.'ll Protect my daughters to not go through that."
In Africa, 92 million girls aged 10 have been victims of this practice, which according to tradition is used to ensure the purity of women, according to Plan. The consequences of genital mutilation pass from imbalances in menstruation difficulties in childbirth, urinary tract infections and even death.
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