Breaking through the taboo of a barbaric past

Updated February 22 2013 - 9:18am, first published February 10 2013 - 3:00am

When Susannah was a girl of about seven or eight, her family held a party. Her mother, cousins and aunts came. There were presents and a general air of celebration and festivity. One by one Susannah and her cousins lined up to see a local midwife.

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