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| archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|They were dirty razors. That is the razor that she will use for 10 or 20 girls that day. No hygiene involved, nothing. '''No anesthesia at all'''. You are just butchered. You could see your flesh. You could see your blood all over her hands. It was a complete, utter horrific, nightmare.}} | | archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|They were dirty razors. That is the razor that she will use for 10 or 20 girls that day. No hygiene involved, nothing. '''No anesthesia at all'''. You are just butchered. You could see your flesh. You could see your blood all over her hands. It was a complete, utter horrific, nightmare.}}{{Quote|{{cite web | ||
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| url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-women-fgm-idUSKBN1DM023 | | url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-women-fgm-idUSKBN1DM023 | ||
| date = 2021-04-27 | | date = 2021-04-27 | ||
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| archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|The room where a doctor, his wife and an assistant were waiting; her legs spread and held down as the doctor approached with a blade, '''inflicting agonizing pain with no anesthetic'''.}}{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.27-043109/https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19042103/female-genital-mutilation-survivor/ 'My Clitoris Was Cut Off When I Was 11' (2018)]|The pain was excruciating, and it's difficult to compare it to anything, even to the pain of rape, which I suffered later in life. The physical pain, sharp, cutting, but never ending, was only made worse by the emotional pain. What was happening? Why had our parents allowed this to happen? What should we fear next? I didn’t talk to my sister, and she didn’t talk to me.}}{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.27-045044/https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fgm-survivor-speaks-horrific-experience-9518964 FGM survivor speaks of her horrific experience (2015)]|I heard my two sisters screaming and then saw an old woman coming to get me and I started running but there was nowhere to go and no-one to run to [...] As soon as I got in the backyard I saw my two sisters lying on the floor bleeding excessively whilst the cutter had covered their faces with scarves. Then one of them held me down on the floor, others tied by eyes, covered my mouth and stretched my legs apart and then I felt a sharp cut in between my legs. '''It was the worst pain of my life''' and I screamed for help but no-one came to help me.}}<br /> | | archivedate = 2021-04-27 }}|The room where a doctor, his wife and an assistant were waiting; her legs spread and held down as the doctor approached with a blade, '''inflicting agonizing pain with no anesthetic'''.}}[[File:Fgm-in-the-middle-east.jpg|thumb|Iraqi Kurdish four-year-old Shwen screams during her circumcision in Suleimaniyah on April 14, 2009]]{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.27-043109/https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19042103/female-genital-mutilation-survivor/ 'My Clitoris Was Cut Off When I Was 11' (2018)]|The pain was excruciating, and it's difficult to compare it to anything, even to the pain of rape, which I suffered later in life. The physical pain, sharp, cutting, but never ending, was only made worse by the emotional pain. What was happening? Why had our parents allowed this to happen? What should we fear next? I didn’t talk to my sister, and she didn’t talk to me.}}{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.27-045044/https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/fgm-survivor-speaks-horrific-experience-9518964 FGM survivor speaks of her horrific experience (2015)]|I heard my two sisters screaming and then saw an old woman coming to get me and I started running but there was nowhere to go and no-one to run to [...] As soon as I got in the backyard I saw my two sisters lying on the floor bleeding excessively whilst the cutter had covered their faces with scarves. Then one of them held me down on the floor, others tied by eyes, covered my mouth and stretched my legs apart and then I felt a sharp cut in between my legs. '''It was the worst pain of my life''' and I screamed for help but no-one came to help me.}}<br /> | ||
{{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.26-081530/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/female-genital-mutilation-no-anaesthetic-before-she-cut-me-1.2093014 Mehret Yemane describing how, as a nine or 10-year-old in Sudan, she underwent FGM for the fourth time in her short life. Irish Times (2015)]|My brothers held my legs, the elder held the blade. '''There was no anaesthetic before she cut me'''.}}[[File:Endfgm-campaign-video-016.jpg|thumb|TUZ KHURMATU, IRAQ - AUGUST 25: In northern Iraq, a midwife slices part of seven year-old Sheelan Anwar Omer's genitals while performing a female circumcision. Female circumcision is a rite of passage for most girls in Kurdistan. It is meant to "cleanse" them of improper or sexual thoughts and actions. A woman who served as an escort for The Washington Post via Getty Images, left, rushed in to comfort the child. Maharoub Juwad Nawchas, the 40-year-old midwife back to camera, also delivered Omer and is a trusted and valued member of the neighborhood. Sheelan's mother, right, holds her. Photographed August, 25, 2008 in Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq. (Photo by Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<ref>Image cropped from larger photo - for original see http://archive.today/2021.04.26-065336/https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/files/2012/06/Kurdish-girl.jpg?ssl=1</ref>]]{{Quote|{{cite web | {{Quote|[http://archive.today/2021.04.26-081530/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/female-genital-mutilation-no-anaesthetic-before-she-cut-me-1.2093014 Mehret Yemane describing how, as a nine or 10-year-old in Sudan, she underwent FGM for the fourth time in her short life. Irish Times (2015)]|My brothers held my legs, the elder held the blade. '''There was no anaesthetic before she cut me'''.}}[[File:Endfgm-campaign-video-016.jpg|thumb|TUZ KHURMATU, IRAQ - AUGUST 25: In northern Iraq, a midwife slices part of seven year-old Sheelan Anwar Omer's genitals while performing a female circumcision. Female circumcision is a rite of passage for most girls in Kurdistan. It is meant to "cleanse" them of improper or sexual thoughts and actions. A woman who served as an escort for The Washington Post via Getty Images, left, rushed in to comfort the child. Maharoub Juwad Nawchas, the 40-year-old midwife back to camera, also delivered Omer and is a trusted and valued member of the neighborhood. Sheelan's mother, right, holds her. Photographed August, 25, 2008 in Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq. (Photo by Andrea Bruce/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<ref>Image cropped from larger photo - for original see http://archive.today/2021.04.26-065336/https://i0.wp.com/freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/files/2012/06/Kurdish-girl.jpg?ssl=1</ref>]]{{Quote|{{cite web | ||