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d i know what it means to experience gentle mutilation as a little girl the after effects the resulting pain and disability my hands still show the complications my head. every day fatima koren battles with what was done to her as a child in somalia for more than 30 years she has worked in germany as an interpreter and author now more and more unaccompanied young women who have undergone f.p.m. have been coming to germany for help. vs the by and question because that's what this massive destruction of sexuality is absolutely deliberate. and since that is the central motive for this 1000 year old tradition women are not supposed to be able to act out their sexuality or sex and especially not enjoy the stuff on software.

95 percent of women in somalia have undergone genital mutilation fatima corn was born there are $964.00 to a family of nomads she was caught at the age of 7 according to what is sometimes called fairy onic tradition. in so my you here in somalia where i come from there's only one type of cursing the clit or is removed and partially scraped off down to the bone. yet then the entire in a lady are scraped out totally like scraping leather. yeah that's what it is because and then what's left of the labor mature is either peeled off from the inside or inside just pissed and then it is also in together from front to back

until it's like this. is when your feet i mean that's actually too big smaller until the opening that's left can just i mean it i think here tip tip just beautifully and that's where your and menstrual blood has to flow out to. the sewing is done with whatever they heard i personally was sewn up with thongs and getting. the wound became infected and the resulting subsists damaged her nervous system. in 1979 fatima corn came to germany where she wrote several books about her experience and became a qualified interpreter. working as an interpreter she has met many women with similar experiences like nemmco who was a child when she fled somalia. into name coping i'm numb co-sponsor i'm 20 years

old also my lai come from somalia and i've been here in germany for 5 years. 5 years more has been like a mother to me someone who's always there for me just. the most in look you still don't have as if i keep telling you country of my c.v. you were really. good you won't listen to me anyway. the men are fallen the men i want a woman who's cut because if she isn't she's not a real woman. she sounds less she's unclean. she's not a real woman and not one you'd want. corn arranged surgery for her to reopen the sewn up area but number was still struggling both physically and psychologically. cost of dust in the

house and you had problems with the gynecologist but i didn't remember it being this bad or have. it made my stomach hurt to see you so tense so i'm going on i knew you couldn't open or close your legs they were so stiff even when the doctor wasn't doing anything what if the more of a look at my hand she said i'm not touching you you were trembling. and i've had this tension. of my involved in my belly i'm so tense. and even up on my shoulder here. as i think of because i know it's all in your head right. i call it the scissors in your head because the memory is so awful so brutal the internet was so he's so gaming. nemmco was cut in somalia at the age of 5. she says she can't remember it anymore

but has recurring nightmares. clumped us human for me i dream someone is standing in front of me and wanting to cut me. when i was younger when i was cut i had dreams where he screamed and there was blood all over the floor and the strange lady who had cut me was there and then i couldn't shut my eyes anymore. at the age of 13 she left somalia made her way to libya and somehow managed to get on a boat. she had just turned 15 when she arrived in germany. in his practice gynecologist christoph sam has experience with the suffering caused by

female genital mutilation or after he is one of a handful of gynecologists in germany who have specialized in this problem he has been treating affected women for more than 20 years he writes expert opinions and arranges operations including surgery to reconstruct the clearest. and. this is science he's the practice this are patriarchal societies in which women play a fundamentally subordinate role. and from that subordinate role they can only become a halfway respected member of society through marriage. that is the bottom line in all the practicing societies is itself but the entry ticket to being married to it is being cut how you got it vs who couldn't if a girl is not cut she can't be married because she's looked down on as a prostitute. and a prostitute you had to up to viet it felt. violated us so this is because that's

the way it has few others and grandmothers carrying it out to give their young daughters a realistic chance in a society. like this that shaft their sense of duty is so ingrained that the women themselves promoted because they know how oppressed they are in their society as augustine ethan's these are this way they ensure that the young women at least get this chance of being respected in the society alternately they ensure that she can survive it's. the men of the me now are raised in the same way. as you may only marry your girl who is cut. if you discover on your wedding night that she isn't it's your duty under threat of social ostracism to shame the girl and send her back to where parents. so both genders are the victims of this 1000 year old traditional. the world health organization estimates that

200000000 women worldwide have undergone genital mutilation a growing number of them are seeking shelter in germany and the offshore it is there are becoming more aware of the however there is. a lack of expertise about after i am in refugee agencies and the health system that's where volunteers like father more corn come in. when my friends me sometimes people ask me why i do all this work with the girls and it's so draining. but i think back then i had no help in that situation and i'd have loved to have an experienced woman tell me i know the right talk to i'll take you there if i don't want to counseling and then he can ask and will be so you have someone to hold you tight this year hostage the fist i didn't have anyone and i vowed to myself to help girls if i had the chance. to move the streets and.

that is why she founded the n.g.o.s. hell another girls i'm at the university stopped. that i'll be over then 3 minutes and you better be there. every 2 weeks she meets up with her proteges in this house in munich district she met most of them while acting as their interpreter they now live scattered throughout the area they come from eritrea somalia ethiopia and most are still minors so their faces may not be shown on camera. are you looking for an internship. i don't exactly have a place yet but i will you also want to go into a medical profession right no no. i wasn't so what do you want to be what profession thank you know kinda got to know god kid a childminder that's so nice. most of all they like talking about

boys after all they're young girls whether how does he was in his post and self so that you can see everything it's. you know you like all the foreigners and the disco they stand like this all the time it's ok just to go and watch them is hilarious. fatima tries to find a playful way to familiarize the girls with the new hope in western world of femininity and. sexuality despite their trauma. you know i mean you know like girls are phenomenal. they talk about sex all the time about having babies about their figures and make up with i think they're all in delayed puberty the confusion of wall flight and detention in libya prevented

them from acting out their femininity and here they can. sex i think sex is something to fuse for them they don't really comprehend it yet they all think they're in love every day and someone else but i honestly think they have no idea what sex really means expedited. most of the girls have had reversal surgery they know that genital mutilation carried out in their childhood will impact their sex lives forever. as of was just brought all of us out. we've talked about sex about cutting and how when a woman has been cut how it will be later when she's married how the man will treat her what he'll do. when a woman who's been cut who's had the operation i don't know how it was that others

but you won't have sexual feelings like other women. so i think if we won't be so open you just where feel anything. and if you are. the group's discussions with a sex therapist have left namco confused she was told that her entire body is an erogenous zone but for now that is just theory. i loved by my one of them said that you can create sex feelings in your head and you can have these thoughts but i don't know how that works and. when those kinds of questions come up is a counsellor a best friend a mother it's an exhausting towns.

she's always on the go always traveling on public transport. in a sense she is still a nomad even though she has been a german citizen for decades she's constantly on the phone usually it's an emergency it's priceless he whatever happens you're in the best of hands with the doctors here and been. there before you put us in. oh no i have to get off it's living again. if a bit i need to get out laughs. we go it's not opening. thank you very much father mo is not only an interpreter because she is involved in networks fighting f.e.m. she is a go to person for the authorities. is common when i get calls from the police from hospital emergency rooms because even come at 4 in the morning come again who is being so if i want some time off i have to turn everything off where i can be

reached. she is the expert in southern germany in cases involving genital mutilation today the social workers at a migrant reception center in munich have asked for her help. this is fatima again can the family come out i'm waiting at the gate. and. there are things starting with putting. up a bit. hollow you see how you know you said a little human you know. you have a cold to get those objectives before the broken is upon the left and. this family with 4 daughters is due to be deported to nigeria they say the girl's face after i am there fatima reads through their decision their asylum application has been rejected subsidiary protection has not been granted the pregnant mother is

about to have another girl. she and her children are supposed to leave germany with them 30 days. that's where the problem is that one of the 4 daughters is cut and the other 3. if one of the girls is cuts and they are deported if that means that the other girls are at risk in their home country that's the problem. this is just . the matter house family has decided to go public with their story. matters his parents have the 2nd youngest girl cut while he was at work and his wife was at the market. trucking. is easy if you have pamphlets because this is one going to something that's interesting still and they say you have to go home. yet

this is what this is because they do believe that you can say to your wife. i want to see. the never. i don't believe in this last without even. live in this legit also the after. so why do people want to give much. that's why would. germany. when there is a risk of after german authorities check whether the person can move elsewhere in their country to escape or in the case of this family they suggest the wife and children hide out in lagos it's got yes it's kind of 1st of all there was no interpreter for their language and secondly they're demanding of this family that

they hide out somewhere in lagos. this is how if they like it will work out somehow we'll have to risk it should be. mysteries that makes me so angry african culture isn't so simple that i can leave the countryside and just hide out somewhere in the city and. where am i supposed to hide out the thought what does that mean right out kind of the most i can camp somewhere on the street with my children to kingdom come p. after 2 weeks they'll start of this they're deliberately risking that these children will be handling it leaves me speechless when the shadow van. as a rule the banff the federal office for migration and refugees in norbury does not comment on individual cases but the department head did respond to our question on whether the agency actually recommended hiding out in a huge city like lagos. but

hideouts was put in quotation marks here. they're also certain requirements that we have to check if we believe that international relocation is an alternative. that's the most important thing of course is that this new location has to be safe it has to be reachable and it must offer the person the possibility of earning a minimum livelihood. and exist in. lagos is a city of millions. lagos is located in the christian south of the country. so basically we can assume that it will be possible to find a place to live there and build up new contacts. hundreds. of pounds who can.

fatima korn has brought the case to decide or where she and a colleague are attending a meeting of integra it's a network of organizations in germany that are active against f g m they include plan international amnesty international and ms area or among other aid organizations. the main topic at this annual meeting the bats. i'm. hearing can be broken off immediately if the woman says look i'm making an application because i'm afraid that i will be caught all because i have already been caught. then the employee has to stop immediately and say i'm getting my superior and they will decide who will continue the hearing. is there the man whom i just said thank goodness since last year the bump is invited me for

the 2nd time and more in the future to school the decision makers. and that's a good start giving them some information about because. it. says the bamf employees often the pli western standards when they make decisions about african families a mistake he says because africans tend to be more strongly bound up in family and tribal structures women are generally associated with the family of her husband that is the case in both christian and muslim regions in the evening he finally gets around to reading the agency's rejection of the nigerian family's application . of the dos log book fetish. for the threat has been completely misrepresented in the decision either out of ignorance or out of malice and. the fact is that there is social pressure not just from the mother in law but in the

entire area and ultimately in all of nigeria god so no matter where they are as long as it hasn't been wiped out and that will take decades in nigeria and the young daughters are directly at risk they are being sent into certain danger and sooner or later a practice will take place a practice that is not allowed under german law or international law. and for. this. the gynecologist promises to send in britain comments on the rejection. 12 years ago he published a handbook for the health system. to make gynecologists nurses and midwives more aware of the issue of female genital mutilation. as a d.v. how does the does your h.o.a.'s come up with a kind of classification based on anatomical features that gets the 1st group and

this covers changes made to the cleverest and not for them is to provide for to us includes everything beyond that it has been done to the labia as a type 3 means the removal of the woman's entire outer genitalia followed by the sewing up of the side edges of the wound so that a scar plate forms over it with a tiny millimeter sized opening. you can really meter miss and then 1234 describes everything that is not covered by the 1st 3 categories of meaning all the other measures like burning in size ing or piercing carried out on the labia and the vagina and. female genital mutilation takes place all around the world in african countries including egypt somalia djibouti mali and working more than 75 percent of women are affected. more than 50 percent are

affected in mauritania and indonesia and the incidence is between 5 and 50 percent in many other countries in south america africa and the middle east f t m is practiced in both muslim and christian regions. federal corn is on her way to cologne to the academy of media arts she's come to meet film student barrel. darryl who comes from kenya became well known after she was able to film circumcisions of boys and girls in her village in 2010 she is a korea an ethnic group at home on lake victoria. in kenya and tanzania. this is your 1st film the cut. here are you afraid with all those people this kind of thing frightens me of a fall against circumcision this is again not

a free division i had a very visionary them for it by going to a circumcision. you can see that this boy here is going to be circumcised because he's wearing different clothes. and it was really really terrible for me. in the floor when i did the filming with the women because my cameraman was not allowed to go there. it was so happy for me to see those girls yeah and then there standing there waiting to be cut into. it was hard for. it was not is for me i could reach home immediately with him at my home the next that cry but then my mother asked me why did you decide to do something that

difficult but i will not tell have the reason where cry i was crying because i saw these young girls and that i remember what i went through. and then the following day i would still go back. it was not easy but i had to tell the story this is one of my childhood stories that when i said i will tell the story when i grow up so i couldn't back down i wanted to do it i know it was hard but i'm happy i did it. every other year the korea carry out circumcisions on both boys and girls the tribal elders declare the cutting season open. female genital mutilation is against the law in both kenya and tanzania so the girls are cut in secret during the boys' circumcision ceremonies of.

the mara region on lake victoria is well known to tourists who come to see masai mara and serengeti national parks what is less known is the tradition of circumcising girls that is still practiced here it's a taboo subject that is not discussed openly. and the bishop of the catholic diocese of most soma in tanzania was one of the 1st african church men to raise his voice against after. the reverend of the valve which ina untrammeled comma known as mama regina is the women's affairs representative for the diocese. where she has spent decades campaigning for the bodily integrity of girls in the region. here the cuttings has grown and you know why. it's near the town.

of the village which is near the town as more than your. 5 from the town things getting tough it's tough although we have succeeded here but it's to me perhaps it's a bit different prescient. yes to do it. mama regina is suspicious everyone here knows that cutting girls is forbidden in tanzania that may be why the cutter says she has stopped doing it how many girls has she cut she says she doesn't know any more very many. that we use our because the cleverest the slippery she says so flower helped you hold the cleverest with one hand and cut it with the other. and what does she cut it with

a razor blade she replies when. someone diocese has set up shelters in schools and cloisters where girls under threat can take refuge when the elders announce the cutting season. and. that's why we have trained to do use. in primary schools we have started the crabs to do crabs so that is the kind of formless. 13 year old when you're free to is one of the threatened girls this is the 2nd time she has run away from home she is hiding out in the one school because her family wants to have her cut. the mainland they'll be burying food for the 1st. of this it in money.

and she then. went and it's they did to. the circumcision of boys and girls is celebrated in a big festival joined by the entire village often it's an occasion to marry off the girls their families receive money and livestock a brutal trade. in fish to sell. yet feeling pain in their injury. when a frieda is not safe yet after her mother died her stepmother and her older brother wanted to have her cut so she fled again to the nuns now her stepmother is also dad at the funeral her brother once again weighs the threat she has brought mama regina to see her family they have gathered to negotiate when a fetus fate the big brother in the purple shirt is now the head of the family. trying to make them united by. feeding your tradition and

culture. he didn't answer. in my main roads i knew that it is there. to be cut and. protected this game. he laughed and said i'm not forcing him know what you know. so i knew that he's the one who is. cause to do it. with. the brother points out that he has to feed the family and therefore it needs the money. would have freed and knows what that means. you're not talking to. his lie. because he's so you

knew you if they could be cremated if he could not kill blake then. he is the king and the it's virtually. everything you need to be polite but. not too close. to. one of freedom would like to stay in the boarding school run by the nuns money donated from the various helps to finance the shelters for threatened girls. works through her own trauma in her films her latest project is a film about women who have undergone after you get reversal surgery in germany. and fall in the head because i couldn't find any woman who was willing to say ok i've had surgery and i like myself and i've made the right decision but why don't

women want to talk about that. stupid. i just don't get it over oh i do understand that it isn't easy to talk about cutting. i'm fuck. a bitch and i didn't it didn't. feel there's this feeling of shame. they're ashamed people don't talk about it in some african countries they're even a bit scared of a curse or evil spirits and someone who is a guy just will. that is why beryl margot co plays the main role in her new film herself she asks do i need an operation to get to know my sexuality. and. who. feel so i want to help other women but i cannot be able to help other women

when i'm still stuck with my story when the past is wanting me so i decided to tell my own story but then 3 but at myself. so yeah i'm helping myself so that they can help other women. back in munich but she doesn't get to take a break. was having problems. they had the company she's stressed out and she's not coming i asked her to come today so we could talk. but no she's stressed and then she writes oh everything is awful terrible a moment later she sends hearts and says i love you you're the best antti in the world leave this. she has a boyfriend and she hasn't been able to deal with it all. she's not far enough.

on the other hand she's head over heels in love but she's so afraid of what sex will mean. i'm trying to support. it so. i have a boyfriend now he comes from germany does she have butterflies in her tummy. sure you know yeah i do. in laugh and terrified. today she has an appointment with dr tubb here in munich she operated on them co 4 years ago.

nemmco hasn't been back to this practice in a while visits to gynecologist arounds traumatic memories her most recent visit to a doctor in say was a disaster. it is this kind of. code doesn't tolerate the birth control pill that the other gynecologist prescribed for her she'd like to try a different one. i have a boyfriend device's me i don't know about that tell me about it. to see how is it with your boyfriend how are you internet relations is there pain is it possible is it easy. up to now we haven't had sexual relations it's not possible. i get panicky and tense scared. gadhafi so we thought

we'd take our time. if i take the pill then maybe the pains will go away. and maybe it will get better after last. year i was always by not what i think since the surgery they shouldn't be such a strong pains i think. i think maybe you're not ready in your head. because the format you can pick up the prescription and everything you need at the reception is . the nigerian family's baby has been born helen march us is both happy and desperate the girl has been given the name miracle that's what this family is hoping for their lawyer pay to henslow has contested the asylum rejection but the decision in germany only affects helen and her children her husband's asylum application will

be decided in italy according to what's known as the dublin regulation you case is. such a bit of a problem. her husband has to leave for italy immediately that would leave helen alone with her 5 children. taken from your farm. and she was 30 years. but then you didn't you didn't show more empathy you can show more emotions they believe their situation is the problem what's the situation right now is that. difficult to wait. for the decision of. me. ok. you've got

a decision. gynecologist kristoff sam has written an expert opinion on the case of the missing few. he writes that there is a concrete danger for all the children taking note of this is very helpful i'll definitely submit to the court and. now all the nigerian family can do is sit and wait for the court's decision. meanwhile nemmco feels she survived in germany sometimes there's someone waiting for her at the train station after school. hey great to see you it's good to see. are you ok so that's good can you

yes fine but there's a lot to do for school i think. should we drive out to chemo for. never go from somalia and flowing from but there. both come from places that value tradition. but while flyin is not under social pressure never call struggles with a strict moral code of her native country. east is on i am who i am and i follow my feeling that mark and that's why i'm together with floating only bloody i love her i do give him her as all. this is. a somali german romance with big obstacles and maybe with a happy ending. but in munich the matter's family is beginning to despair but omar coren is on the receiving end the long wait in the

crowded reception center is highly stressful. i'd say that everything. i got told him to have a because of the children just the words all of that i got all inside of you i know everything today but in that we have a little part of my job you have to stay here and try to. tell him not us doesn't believe her the long wait has worn her down there 7 sharing a tiny room with the specter of ending up in nigeria after all. can't relax during a lakeside outing she's organized for the girls from her nala group.

i liked it out of the for me a little sadness that this family doesn't know what will happen to them you know often we hope they'll be able to stay. but i can't relax because i don't know yet. and this is your. they're not the only fan and if i have 10 other families or individuals who are in limbo like that. for you know where i don't know if they might be in deportation custody tomorrow. i never have peace which is why i'm a bit exposed to it even if at the end show it's cup but i'm pretty exhausted and even got shook up with hard work has borne fruit some knowledge girls have finished their training and found work but it's still unclear how long they will be able to stay in germany.

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