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When Salimata Badji Knight was five-years-old she was held down in the woods near her home by people from her own community and horribly mutilated in a bid to ensure she didn't grow up to be an unfaithful wife. Earlier this month, the campaigner against female genital mutilation came to Bermuda to explain to Islanders why no child should ever have to go through that again.
Confronting the horror of female genital mutilation
Seeded on Thu Nov 2, 2006 8:54 AM EST
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