If French campaigners’ incredulity at Britain’s failure to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM) is unfounded, this government must both supply the evidence it is, or agree that it is not undertaking ample to safeguard younger females. The Uk must at least be doing what the French are (Zero-tolerance by French authorities, 10 February). Perhaps Labour can say what it would do if in government.
Peter Stewart
London
• I even now recall the day when, as a 10-12 months-outdated boy in Sudan, I returned house to locate my sisters minimize and their lives blighted. The memory of their soreness, compounded by my very own sense of helplessness, shame and guilt at not being ready to safeguard or comfort them, has remained with me ever because. As a medical professional, I would come to recognise the struggling that girls endured at each and every stage of their lives due to the fact of what is referred to as circumcision. (My sisters and I never spoke about their trauma, but just lately I have been ready to use it as a backdrop for my novel, The Baobab’s Covenant with Rain.) To deliver this barbaric practice to an finish it is essential that we target the men on whose behalf it is carried out. FGM is hidden since in these societies the females themselves are hidden. But the men are not and are not able to pretend that they have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Isam Babiker
Bristol
• To call FGM cutting, or even mutilation, does not convey the total horror. The clitoris, which is the major female organ of sexual feeling, is almost constantly cut off. In other phrases, if 1 have been to try to uncover a male equivalent, it would be comparable to castration. So, please aid individuals to recognise what FGM is really all about, a brutal attack on women’s sexuality.
Jean Robertson-Molloy
London
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