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Năm 2001, một thống kê của chính phủ Mauritania trên 68.000 phụ nữ
found one in five between the ages of 15 and 49
had been subjected to give arch for speeding
and yet there are those who insist the practice has now ended
when it comes to stuffing girls against their will
ring making them forcing them to eat beyond their needs that's something
that's a
the is not accepted anymore but cindy is about to discover otherwise
she's reached her destination a remote village
four hours drive from the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott
this is the home of my job a and no
just seven years old but this smiles conceal a tragic truth
for their being forced to undergo give arch and their relatives
seem completely unashamed hired added
shingle navy blue the force feed the girls
we take the Littleton girl and we give her milk until she gets
fat given game to pull
under a corrugated iron roof fenced in by why mash
a jugar and no hun are raising a high calorie breakfast
have couscous and leeches cow's milk
Hill by PB City speeds up puberty and rapidly transforms the girl's body
she starts her period earlier than normal because the packing process
that sorry and know his father is also content to see his daughter being
force-fed
or words that I said it no silly as you having a fat wife
means that you're being generous to her treating her well
you giving a everything you have so the other man
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sonny jim is a tough it when asked about their ordeal
why do I know how have any one response past month
%uh want to be fair
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I and find unusual
on and on it goes seemingly without and more course course followed by more milk
followed by more Kuss Kuss
and the girls seemed powerless to refuse not his grandmother reaches for a pair
of bamboo tongs
as much you before miss old
example I think one cookies have been Huber my
from what you think I was traumatized by my Schubas plight
she was so sick so we and vomiting this little girl is just starting to be
force-fed
she's only seven the other girls are more used to it
it shocks me a lot as a mother and as a campaigner for human rights
from Walmart she demonstrates how the toms were once used to ensure give us
victims were compliant
she claims such abuses no longer practiced
but the fact the tools remain so close to hand seem suspicious
we lead but I life you can lead in his arm hurts because if the pinching and
squeezing
but her mother refused to roll up her daughter sleeves and reveal her injuries
because she fears being accused of child abuse she realizes the hype she's
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but still she continues hid
two-minute I force them
when they feel sick a pinch them to prevent them from vomiting
threaten sometimes beat them him
his
doesn't
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this accident life you can be relation is
to that know her runs many times to the toilet to vomit because she can't do it
in front of her mother
you saw her mother pinching her too distracted from showing up
known as mother told me know have moments out the side so she can return
to drink more milk
but her mother's happy with that because they say the more girls on its the more
stomach widens
as you can drink large amounts of milk itself
for me perfidy up with what a minute output on the really
hit
in the stifling heat mcdougal looks listless and exhausted
but the poll is effectively bottomless it will be refilled
the moment it sainted any
the girls are reaching a breaking point
neal had begun with smiles but now only TS
family and friends all around but seemingly
no one to turn to know that this man I don't care she's upset
this one hurts her it's good for her who could
specify yeah 1/2
for could
its
battle in heaven
an intimate you to do anyplace when I was force fed as a child I cry to you
and vomited
I didn't like the coverage either but as I got older I started doing it myself
and then I liked it when I was their age i wept and I ran away to vomit
just like they do now naked in bed had that wasn't module is forced to drink
yet more milk no harm may have already been sick
during a frequent trips to the outhouse but that doesn't stop her mother
commanding her
to finish double as a yeah
high-net-worth know has relief is evident in a brief response from the
pressure to gorge commits a smile
but regardless if time-honored traditions boys girls
are unwitting victims have child abuse
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keep from entered yep force-feeding
is a practice %uh violence against children it should never be accepted
this type of practice that will give a girl heart problems
leading to an early death you're just a non-starter
Lee the immediate effects have coverage on the girl is the suffering
she's a battered girl its catastrophic she'll always be depressed in her life
and subjugated but no his mother sounds far from subjugated
as she expresses a wish for know how to grow up as a normal
Mauritanian woman just to see how lady in Houla
fourteen men like women to be pleasing to the eye is and to their hands
known as senate career I think it goes to a fact and big so they can get
married fast
and have children
such a happy ending is by no means guaranteed
in the years to come it could be much you go or no hot on this operating table
the patient is having her gallbladder removed a common procedure in Mauritania
hundreds ever be swimmin undergo the surgery every year
and this is why the gallbladder choked with cubes have cholesterol
this is about close about
who
in cardiology war de mi sign is up to receiving visitors
including a baby girl belushi admits to wanting to shed some weight
she's still prefers to be fat and Finn
number I think Walmart einon's love women like me because I'm
bake with his ill health and untimely death the price worth paying
the government thinks Mauritanian are getting the message
the governor's call so i just bided the convergence it is starting to disappear
because people are conscious now the health implications but in the
countryside where people less educated coverage continues
but because parents prefer their duties to go to school these days
they don't want to distract them from the study supervises decreasing
she week it was a made on that Iran civic says the party did it as it could
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force feeding is a part of the cultural legacy heritage in Mauritania
he was born in the wide expanses of desert and the open tents
but it's not easy to impose a new way of life from people living in rural areas
and eradicate their traditions its early evening at a sports stadium
in Nouakchott it might be fashionable ball culturally condones
but these women trying to lose weight they don't that this is very well
the woman's would saddle he had to make spots because in the phrase I can give
you an example when I was 12 yes someone told me just an example is between
others
tell me why you trying to be is all seem it's not something
mississippi pp it's not it's another beautiful on
me I don't want to be friends does not to be needing immediate
I don't like to be there CMAC but it's not too
notes was so not to be so fast to be in them
best sees me that think my addr my opinion I like this woman
zooming fund going to make goes for
I think the for young people they like you the
15 no the fee in the woman in the March hangin capital women are literally
exercising their free will
to decide for themselves the right balance between beauty and health
across this sprawling country in far-off towns and villages
Mauritania is deeply rooted in its culture and traditions
girls like mature over and no ha remain trapped
in a tragic fate
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