TOPIC: Globalisation » Social » Exposed » Children » Circumcision
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Date
1997-09-30
Actor
Koroma, Hannah
Source
Amnesty Internationa...
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Testimony

After the operation, no one was allowed to aid me to walk. The stuff they put on my wound stank and was painful. These were terrible times for me. Each time I wanted to urinate, I was forced to stand upright. The urine would spread over the wound and would cause fresh pain all over again. Sometimes I had to force myself not to urinate for fear of the terrible pain. I was not given any anaesthetic in the operation to reduce my pain, nor any antibiotics to fight against infection. Afterwards, I haemorrhaged and became anaemic. This was attributed to witchcraft. I suffered for a long time from acute vaginal infections
Hannah Koroma
Testimony from a woman circumcised in Sierra Leone.

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