Case rejected, genital mutilation victim still fighting to stay in U.S. By Matthew Hay Brown | Sun reporter WASHINGTON - Growing up in the West African nation of Mali, Alima Traore assumed that girls everywhere had to undergo the procedure. "In my country, it is usually an old lady" who performs the crude surgery, the 29-year-old woman said during an interview in her attorney's Rockville office. "They have a traditional knife for it. They cut your intimate parts. This knife is used for many girls." It wasn't until Traore came to the United States eight years ago that she learned that female genital mutilation has been condemned the world over as a human rights abuse. Now that she's here - she has been living in Montgomery County since 2000 - she doesn't want to go back. Traore's fight against deportation - her student visa...
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