Ugandan Against All Genital Mutilation

20/07/2022

Must we stop circumcising children because their parents can't manage to buy food ,you use food as an advantage to circumcised their children reffering to a cultural and religious practice ...and a blessing .total lie

07/04/2022

😥😥😥

06/04/2022

05/04/2022

Rescue team please let's do the needful

02/04/2022

After being cut ,you are told to relax and wait for food which you was promised and the presents you collected from villagers around the community .
When in a walk and run while dancing around villages .

Many boys are circumcised because of expectations for presents like food,money,clothes etc .

We are looking into spreading food ,and teaching villagers about sustainability through farming being that agriculture is the backbone of Uganda provided people are ignorant about better methods of farming .
Many people tend to cultivate but have bad seasons because of poor methods of farming .

# let's end the madness

01/04/2022

People also ask

Why the Bagisu circumcise?

The Bagisu strongly believes in and is part of their traditional religious beliefs, culture, and tradition. The Bagisu Imbalu Public Circumcision Rites is that that day, that moment in time when a boy of the tribe becomes a man

LETS END THE MADNESS

Join to support
I'm raising $25,000.00 until 01/05/2022 for ending ughanda ge***al mutilation. Can you help? https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8IywNeoktP

01/04/2022

BELIEFS OF THE BAGISU

The imbalu
The Bagisu are well known for their Imbalu circumcision ceremony. “Stand straight and look into my eyes. Don’t twitch a muscle. I see you are crying. You are crying for it. Crying to be cut to look like your father,” are words told to the candidates undergoing the imbalu ritual by the local surgeon.
This practice dates back to the tale that a certain Mugisu man was summoned by the council of elders because of stealing other men’s wives and then he was subjected to circumcision in Mutoto village as a punishment and preventive action for being adulterous. However, this yielded nothing as he became more powerful and admirable to women. The counterparts retaliated by circumcising themselves to compete favourably.

Incidents of the ritual
Whatever the origin, the Imbalu circumcision ceremony held during leap years is a personal rite of passage to manhood among the Bagisu. They believe that the desire to be circumcised is spiritually motivated.
Circumcision is seasonal and the candidates are first checked to ensure they are Bagisu basing on their clans.
The current king Umukuuka, Bob Saul Kipiro Mushikori told The East African, “In my regime, I don’t entertain hooliganism where non-Bagisu are forced into circumcision. A person has to willingly accept it but if not, we don’t circumcise such a person.”
Many tribes such as Iteso, Langi, Acholi and Lugbara live in Mbale and they settled there in mid-1980s at the time of political insurgency and cattle rustling. In 2014, there were cases where neighbouring Iteso, Japadhola, Bagwere, Banyole were forcefully circumcised in public view attracting rage of the elders of those tribes. Traditional surgeons led by Moses Kutoi, the chairman Imbalu in inzu ya Bamasaba in Mbale went circumcising every male, including the non-Bagisu in the area. Police was forced to fire tear gas, to save many men from being forcefully circumcised. Some Bagisu claimed the forced circumcision campaign was conducted becau