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04-16-2002, 12:01 PM
**** How about this from today's paper? ********
Girls flee homes in fear of FGM
By RICHARD CHESOS
Seventeen girls in Marakwet have fled their homes after they were allegedly threatened with forcible circumcision.
They were among 350 girls who had escaped the circumcision by undergoing an alternative rite of passage last December at Tot World Vision offices when hundreds of their age-mates went into seclusion for the ritual.
The girls, aged between 12 and 15, sought refuge at the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Eldoret after one of their colleagues was allegedly forcefully circumcised two weeks ago.
Yesterday, the Nation found the girls camped at the human rights organisation's offices in Eldoret.
Their rescuer, Mrs Emmy Kibiwott, said she had taken the girls to the organisation after they asked her to help them get away from their parents and relatives who had allegedly wanted to force them undergo the rite.
"The government, through the office of District Commissioner Christopher Maithya had explained to the parents about the dangers of the practice. Most of those threatening the girls with FGM are relatives," she said.
She said most of the girls were in secondary schools and could not raise school fees since most their parents and relatives were reluctant to pay for them. She feared that the girls' parents and relatives might use this school holiday to circumcise the girls.
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