On America new top model , the model Fatima came with some shocking facts . That in a small country the little girls use to get circumcised as small children so that the want be able to have sex until they were married . The girls began to get married at 12 and 13 years of age. Because they were force to, because that’s what people believe in were they were from. Little girls as young as 5 and 6 years away were taken away from their parents in the middle of the night while they were asleep and you could hear the screams. The moth
ers would be crying, because they new that their daughter wasn’t ready. Some girls bleed so much until they died on the table and the men didn’t care they just went on to the next victim kept it moving. Not really caring that the mothers just lost their little girl.
In Assosa a girl named Endieyewho Asmare began to tell her story of what happened to her. She was married at the age of 13 she was married because her mother was ill. One night her husband and some other men came and woke her up, placed her one the table and began cutting. Before they made sure all the doors and gates were closed. They placed her on the table tied her down.
They came with knives. She was terrorized and she screamed over and over again. Sayings don’t do this to me. But they refused and kept on cutting. With the knives they cut her up and down (mutilated her genitals. This scared her for life. They than cleaned her up and left. But after they left the bleeding didn’t stop. It continued to flow. For months. Through her clothes. She was barely able to move she was like on a stand still. Her parents came and saw what had happened to her and they took her away while her husband wasn’t there took her to the doctor. And she was treated, soon to come after she got well. He came and tried take her back. They even went to court because that’s what her husband wanted to do. The courts told her she had to do back to him because she was married to him. And her mother cried pleading that the court wouldn’t make her go back. Endieyewho cried out saying NO I want go back please don’t make me go back her hurt me and he hurt me until in bleed for days I want go back.
Now could you picture your daughter going through something like that not having a choice what to do with their bodies. And the mothers not having a say so because the men ruled them. Or better yet could you picture yourself going through that. Not knowing if you’re going to live or die while their cutting you with knives and sewing you up. Taken what’s yours but in they’re eyes it was theirs. Taken freedom by people who wasn’t doctors.
ers would be crying, because they new that their daughter wasn’t ready. Some girls bleed so much until they died on the table and the men didn’t care they just went on to the next victim kept it moving. Not really caring that the mothers just lost their little girl.In Assosa a girl named Endieyewho Asmare began to tell her story of what happened to her. She was married at the age of 13 she was married because her mother was ill. One night her husband and some other men came and woke her up, placed her one the table and began cutting. Before they made sure all the doors and gates were closed. They placed her on the table tied her down.
They came with knives. She was terrorized and she screamed over and over again. Sayings don’t do this to me. But they refused and kept on cutting. With the knives they cut her up and down (mutilated her genitals. This scared her for life. They than cleaned her up and left. But after they left the bleeding didn’t stop. It continued to flow. For months. Through her clothes. She was barely able to move she was like on a stand still. Her parents came and saw what had happened to her and they took her away while her husband wasn’t there took her to the doctor. And she was treated, soon to come after she got well. He came and tried take her back. They even went to court because that’s what her husband wanted to do. The courts told her she had to do back to him because she was married to him. And her mother cried pleading that the court wouldn’t make her go back. Endieyewho cried out saying NO I want go back please don’t make me go back her hurt me and he hurt me until in bleed for days I want go back.
Now could you picture your daughter going through something like that not having a choice what to do with their bodies. And the mothers not having a say so because the men ruled them. Or better yet could you picture yourself going through that. Not knowing if you’re going to live or die while their cutting you with knives and sewing you up. Taken what’s yours but in they’re eyes it was theirs. Taken freedom by people who wasn’t doctors.
Kateema,
ReplyDeleteWow. This is a powerful topic and you write about it with compelling authority. Endieyewho's story is painful, but by doing this research and writing you are helping to raise awareness about this subject. Keep up the good work.