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No one knows the pain we go through, circumcised women speak

Rosilla Lenanyokie,16, from Samburu County who was circumcised at age nine before being married off.

Rosilla Lenanyokie was just nine years old when she was forced to go through the outlawed tradition of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

It was 2011. And all her parents were interested in was getting her married off. It worked, but not for long.

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