Tearful and terrified, young girls are lined up to undergo a tribal circumcision ceremony in Kenyan village

ကင္ညာမွ ႐ုိးရာအစြဲအရ မိန္းမကိုယ္ လွီးျဖတ္သည့္ ဓေလ့အေၾကာင္း တစ္ေစ့တစ္ေစာင္း

Photographer Siegfried Modola captured this ceremony in rural Kenya for four teenage girls of the Pokot tribe.

More than a quarter of Kenyan women have undergone ordeal, despite the practice being outlawed three years ago.

But in many tribes, it is considered a rite of passage that marks the transition into womanhood so girls can marry. 

More than a quarter of Kenyan women have undergone the ordeal, despite government efforts to end the practice in the East African country.

'It's a tradition that has been happening forever,' the father of one of the girls, who asked not to be named fearing reprisal from the authorities, told Reuters from the isolated Pokot settlement some 80km from the town of Marigat.

'The girls are circumcised to get married. It's a girl's transition into womanhood,' he said.

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