Genital mutilation

[Steve]

Genital mutilation a weapon in Kenya

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY and JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writers

 

For two terrifying hours, the woman crouched inside her shop, watching as a gang attacked five men in the street, pulled down their trousers and sliced their genitals with rusty machetes.

 

"The men were screaming and saying, 'Please don't kill me, don't cut me,'" the 35-year-old vendor told The Associated Press, asking to be identified only by one initial, K., because she feared reprisals by the gang.

 

In the violence that has followed Kenya's disputed presidential election, a notorious gang has been mutilating the genitals of both men and women in the name of circumcision â?? inflicting a brutal punishment on members of a rival tribe that does not traditionally circumcise...

 

 

[Flashermac]

Kikuyu's going after those "fish eating Luos".

 

BTW Obama's papa was a Luo.

 

 

[Torneyboy]

They must pay for the destruction and the deaths," the female recruiter said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the gang has been outlawed since 2002, after its members beheaded 21 people in a turf war with a rival gang.

 

Nice place to visit...

[Flashermac]

The Kenyas have long been famous for settling arguments with their pangas (long bolo type knices.)

 

 

[sayjann]

and the UK will send millions in aid to the Government to allow them to do the same thing time and time again.+