In many cases it’s a woman that grips the blade — maybe clean, maybe dirty — that cuts a girl’s path to womanhood. The cutter, who works for a fee, can pursue any number of surgical options for the young girl’s rite of passage. She can remove the girl’s clitoris entirely, narrow her vagina with stitches, or make other excisions of the girl’s genitalia….
A traditional symbol of a child’s maturity to womanhood, the girl undergoes a circumcision. Often without an anesthetic, she feels every slice.
And sometimes girls that become women under the knife die under it, too.
In
"If a girl dies during circumcision that would be murder," Mirundi said. "The punishment for murder in
Museveni’s move to ban female circumcision is in line with other countries and organizations that have sought to decrease the prevalence of female circumcision, also known as female genital cutting or female genital mutilation. The practice involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia and creates scar tissue that can cause complications during labor.
Source: Attila Éliás