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HOW THE FEMICIDE IS BEING COMMITTED

There are different ways noted in the committing of the Femicide. Those ways evolve and have been changing with time.

THE PHYSICAL METHOD.
The main way of committing the femicide is by killing the women in a village.
Although it has been noticed that the direct killing is rare, there have been a few casualties of direct shots with firearms or by knives and machetes.
In such a case though, it's often all inhabitants that are targeted and massacred, not only women.

THE MOST COMMON METHOD.
The most common process though, is to rape and afterwards insert anything handy in the woman's genitals that eventually destroy tissues separating vagina, rectum and uretra. In these cases, women become incontinent, smell because they cannot retain their waste.
The cuts on and in their genitals also open and hasten a way for germs and therefore infections such as HIV or Chlamydia.

ADDITIONAL WAYS OR METHODS.
Most of the torture involving women's genitals (rape, introduction of different objects - wood, knives, broken glass, hot candle wax, gunshots) is done in public.
Villagers are forced to watch, especially close family members : husband, sons, sisters or mothers.
Sons are forced to rape their mother or sisters too while a father would be forced to watch. They are killed if they don't.
Some are forcibly fed with their mother's, wife's, father's or husband's flesh.
Some have lately reported being forced to sit on hot charcoal. They reach the medical center with serious burns.

THE AFTER-EFFECT.
The femicide continues on the moral level of the community and beyond women.
Men cannot stand having failed to protect their family. They just decide to leave their village. They want to go away, far, anywhere, and take with them that burden of failure and public shame.
They become impotent; the image of several men raping and torturing their loved one sticks in their mind.
Many of them become mentally disturbed for good.
The same effect happens to sons who witnessed the torture or were forced to participate.
Suicide is not a local culture but many aspire to it.
Women who have fistula leak their waste without control and therefore smell. Nobody wants to be around them anymore.


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