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=Who performs the mutilation?=

Yes, who are those people who perform this crime? According to Waris Dirie's book Desert Flower, the woman is a gypsy. First of all for us it seems like a gypsy has a real low position in the society because we associate with a gypsy a poor and unemployed person. The nomad society in Africa calls the woman who performs the mutilation a gypsy. It is used like a name. But it is really different to our association: the gypsy is an important character in the society and she has special knowledge because she is the real only one who is able to cut the girl because she know which instruments do we need for the mutilation. For this reason it is obvious that she gets a lot of money as well. For a nomad household it is one of the most important and highest expenses. All in all this woman, the gypsy, has a high position in the society because without the mutilation the girl is an outsider and is not allowed to marry.