In rural Kenya, traditions run deeper than law on cutting girls

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In rural Kenya, traditions run deeper than law on cutting girls

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rural-kenya-traditions-run-deeper-law-cutting-girls-203814159.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XVoNg9UV7h5wwae5BXoCxA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-11-12T203814Z_2_LYNXNPEAAB0Q8_RTROPTP_2_KENYA-CIRCUMCISION-WIDERIMAGE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Pokot girl, covered in animal skins, walks to a place where she will rest after being circumcised in a tribal ritual in a village about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County" align="left" title="A Pokot girl, covered in animal skins, walks to a place where she will rest after being circumcised in a tribal ritual in a village about 80 kilometres from the town of Marigat in Baringo County" border="0" /></a>By Siegfried Modola BARINGO COUNTY Kenya (Reuters) - Draped in animal skin and covered in white paint, four teenage girls squat over large stones in a remote western Kenyan village after being circumcised - a life-threatening custom banned in the country three years ago. Like the four neighbors, over a quarter of Kenyan women have undergone the ordeal, seen as a rite of passage for girls despite government efforts to end it in the East African country. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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