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War between church, tradition rages on 100 years later

Historical records indicate that elders' caucuses were first banned around 1900 to prevent them from becoming competing centres of power against the government. [iStockphoto]

Thousands of teenage boys are recovering in barracks under the hawkish eyes of bible-clutching elders to be schooled on complexities of adulthood.

The boys have been undergoing rigorous training of how to transit from boys to men, after being subjected to a "physical rite of passage."

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