Monica Cheptilak claims she was the "chairperson of the knife cutters" in her tribe before female genital mutilation (FGM) was outlawed in Uganda in 2010. She displays the tool she used to cut young girls. FGM continues to be a problem in the region, aid workers and police say. Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been outlawed in Uganda since 2010, but aid workers and police say it's still being practiced by tribes in the northeast, including the Pokots, Sebei, Tepeth and Kadama.

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