“As I cut pieces of the flesh around her vaginal area, the girl is in a lot of pain. When the body moves, the knife keeps on sliding and even the piece of flesh you are holding slips off the fingers and so I end up cutting other places down there.”<br />“Sometimes I accidentally cut the place where a woman passes urine and the girl overbleeds. Some of them faint.”<br /><br />This is the memory that Epanu Doros has to live with as she recalls her life as a female circumciser two years ago.<br />The wailing sounds and screams of the over 100 girls she cut are like a sting in her heart with the memory of every single girl she laid her blade on.<br /><br />“I used a razor blade. Sometimes I didn’t have it when I was called to cut girls. So I would take old pieces of iron and sharpen them on both edges. Then I used them in place of a razor.”<br /><br />She remembers her pride of excising young girls’ vaginal flesh and throwing it away to rot at the salivation of maggots.<br /><br />“I used to cut off a piece from inside there and throw it away as the girl cried and screamed through.”<br />FGM means partial or total removal of female external genitalia.
