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This 3 page paper discusses Kassindja and Bashir's book, Do They Hear You When You Cry, the true account of Kassindja's plight to escape Female genital mutilation in Togo, Africa. The writer's thesis is that strangers will come forward to help an individual who is experiencing injustice and brutality. The writer also reports how this case changed refugee laws in the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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person and possibly the entire group that is being severely abused. In this case, it is the "ancient and barbaric practice"i of Female genital mutilation (FGM).ii FGM has been practiced
for centuries primarily in African countries.iii Gonsalves reports more than 130 women have been subjected to this practiceiv, an operation that is performed under the most barbaric, unsanitary and extremely
painful conditions and that brutalizes and degrades girls between the ages of 8 and 14.v The author, however, was 17 when she was going to be subjected to this practice
which may well have killed her. Kassindja tells a compelling story of her own plight, how she escaped from Togo, went to Germany and then came to the United States.vi
The first example of a person in danger receiving help is reported in her escape, receiving help from her sister and mother, who gives her money and helping her to
obtain a false passport to flee from Togo.vii She then meets a woman at the airport in Germany who helps her for the two months she stays in Germany,viii another
example of the kindness of strangers when in danger. Kassindja decides she would be better off in the United States where she has relatives and again travels using a false
passport.ix A friend told Kassindja to ask for asylum when she reaches America but that did not work out, either because she was too embarrassed to tell the officials she
was escaping from a brutal and abusive practice. Instead of gaining asylum, she was put in prison, chained, strip-searched, deprived of adequate medical care, poorly fed, deprived of adequate counsel,
moved from place to place, had hearing dates frequently rescheduled and faced a judge who gave the impression of not being concerned about justice and fair treatment himself.x Expecting fair
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