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02/01/04: Factual Aspect FB.1: Female Genital Mutilation:
Doctor in Italy Tries
to Ease Pain of an African Tradition
LORENCE, Italy, Jan. 26 — Week after week, scarred
women came to Dr. Omar
Abdulcadir's gynecology clinic here for help, and while the ways
in which they
suffered differed, the reason was always the same.
They were immigrants to Italy who had been subjected back in Africa
to a brutal girlhood
ritual, common throughout much of the continent, in which part
or all of their external
genitalia had been sliced off.
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