Burundi : Female Genital Mutilation
Burundi : Female Genital Mutilation
Bujumbura, February 7th,2024 , Gako News (Blog) Even though female genital mutilation seems to be an unknown cultural practice in Burundi,some young people are doubting this human right violation still live and well.
Aissa Edon, a young African woman who was mutilated at the age 11 before she was sent to France where she met someone who has turned her painful life in hope. She finally built an FGM Hope Clinic. She said FMG should be a business for any one. Likewise Antonio she regreted that FGM involves the removal of or injury to female genital female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
The FGM is celebrated on February 6th of every year. Scholars , local , regional and international officials take opportunity to vividly warm this cultural practice which consists of cutting clitoris of a teenager girl. It creates emotional, psychological and social challenge for any girl who is mutilated.
Important link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ5fzUWpPp0
During discussion on the afternoon of February 7th, in American corner Kamenge after listening to an FGM victim-Aissa Edon, participants said that as it remains critical to know if Burundi is one of the 29 countries across the world where girls and women are facing to that problem.
I am really afraid of some parents who think they are stopping their young girls to make sexual intercourses by mutilation of their clitoris. As sex still tabou in Burundi this practice may happens in some borders's area,said one participant.
Comparing to what is happening with young girls in Buyenzi Zone who prepare their marriage ceremony where young girls learn how to really enjoy sex with their future husbands, the kunyonga ptactice as it was published by Yaga, the FGM may happens in Burundi said a young women from Rugombo, Cibitoke Province , nearest Rwanda border where the practice of gukuna is an other dangerous cultural practice.
The practicers say that gukuna facilitates the kunyaza practice and both of them are frequent in Burundi, Tanzania and Rwanda. A young man who had sexual intercourses with an FGM victim said that there is no ''Swingi'' as it is for normal girl or woman. The victim doesn't enjoy and seems as if she was raped, he warmed.
