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  • Girls being force-fed for marriage as junta revives fattening farms

    03/01/2009 5:40:42 PM PST · by forkinsocket · 23 replies · 2,729+ views
    Guardian.co.uk ^ | 1 March 2009 | Alex Duval Smith
    Fears are growing for the fate of thousands of young girls in rural Mauritania, where campaigners say the cruel practice of force-feeding young girls for marriage is making a significant comeback since a military junta took over the West African country. Aminetou Mint Ely, a women's rights campaigner, said girls as young as five were still being subjected to the tradition of leblouh every year. The practice sees them tortured into swallowing gargantuan amounts of food and liquid - and consuming their vomit if they reject it. "In Mauritania, a woman's size indicates the amount of space she occupies in...