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“They hit my head so much, when I was moving it, everything was moving, it was like a balloon and water in it. My husband used to beat me for different reasons, such as, sweeping the house slowly, assorting the greens in not a lovely manner, closing the door with a snap or “talking over head”, turning my whole body and face into an entire bruise.” “Every time they found a reason to beat, telling that “you’ve made witchcraft”. Then my mother-in-law began to beat… A few times with a lighter, and afterwards with rolled pieces of paper, she was burning my breast. She was forcing me to take my tongue out and burning it with a lighter. I was taking it back because of the pain, and she was heating me over the head with a rolling pin, pulling my hair so tightly that some parts of my skin were abraded away with the hair. Thus, I had to take my tongue out again, and after burning it she was putting a piece of soap in my mouth saying she is doing so that I could feel strongly what the bitterness is. She was closing my mouth tightly so that I couldn’t do anything but swallow the soap…’’,- Mariam recalls.
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