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Post by ♫anna♫ on Dec 26, 2015 16:35:12 GMT
edition.cnn.com/2015/10/11/africa/kenya-girls-fgm-child-marriage/index.htmlRevealed: Life of girl, 9, forced to marry man 69 years her seniorOct. 16, 2015 Maralal, Kenya (CNN)Singing and dancing as she performs in a school assembly, Younis looks for all the world like a typical Kenyan teenager, with a beaming smile and a grey and maroon uniform. There's little outward clue to the trauma she's already been through in her 13 short years. When she was just nine years old, Younis's parents arranged for her to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, in accordance with local Samburu tradition. The Samburu are an ancient Kenyan tribe pastoralist cattle herders, said to be "distant cousins" of the Maasai. Even to outsiders, their languages and customs are strikingly similar. Younis and other girls like her have dared to break away from some of these traditions -- child marriage, female genital mutilation and beading (the practice of promising girls to their male relatives for sex) --which are illegal in Kenya. But in doing so they risk being disowned by their families and communities. "When I was about nine years old, my father married me off to an old man who was 78 years old," Younis explains, the memories of her harrowing experience still raw. "I went to his home and I stayed with him one week. "He told me that I will be a wife but I was just innocent, I wanted to come to school. But that man wanted me to be a third wife. I told him, I will not be your wife, and he caned me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2015 2:17:26 GMT
We have so much to be thankful for!
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Post by FanOfDorks on Jan 4, 2016 18:41:25 GMT
So true.
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