Death By Circumcision

From Peaceful Beginnings

In Memory Of All People, Male, Female And Intersexed, Who Have Been Killed By Circumcision:

To The Ones We Know, The Ones We Don’t, And The Ones Only God Knows

¿How many deaths will it take ‘til we know that too many people have died? Bob Dylan

• Beasley Allen Terrebonne, 48 years, suicide, after botched circumcision and resulting depression, Thibodaux, Louisiana, Tuesday, 23 December 2008, about 10:30 AM
• Gino Erojo, 11 years, infection Panciao, Manjuyod, Negros Oriental, Philippines August 3, 2008; 9:45 PM local time
• Johnson, boy, 2 years 7 months Bari, Itlay July 22, 2008
• Yongama Boya, 18-year-old male Qumbu area of Transkei, South Africa July, 2008
• Evidence Obosee Prince Aseh, boy, 2 months, hæmorrhage Treviso, Italy June 5, 2008
• 18-year-old male Gxulu Village, Umtata, South Africa November, 2007
• Infant boy, 18 days old Pilar district, Tarragona, Nigeria November 18, 2007
• Kuldeep Kumar Vishnubhai Patel, 10 year old boy Unjha, Gujarat, India November 18, 2007

(gap; a number of names missing here due to data loss)

• Infant boy Abou Quir, Alexandria, Egypt February 15, 2005
• Muyoddin Khan, 5 Indrapur, Nepal February 10, 2005
• Wandile Lwane, 21 (Dontsa’s brother, by suicide after learning of Dontasa’s death) Ezibeleni, Queenstown, South Africa January 9, 2005
• Dontsa Lwane, 19 (by suicide after botched circumcision of Dec 11, 2004) Gqebenya, Lady Frere, South Africa January 8, 2005
• 30 day old infant Kermanshah, Iran November, 2004
• Infant twin (by herpes virus, circumcised by Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer who has herpes and performed metziza by mouth [sucking the blood] on baby’s penis) New York, New York October, 2004
• Sabelo Marotya, 17 Mdantsane, South Africa July 4, 2004
• David Reimer (38, by suicide. He lost his penis to circumcision as a toddler and was raised as a girl until teen-age, when he discovered the truth and decided to live the rest of his life as a male. See “As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl”, by John Colapinto.) May 4, 2004 Winnipeg, Canada
• Justin William Rumberger (3 months, 5 days; sick with Zellweger’s Syndrome, circumcision hastens death) December 28, 2003 Ellensburg, Washington
• Bennett Ntazini (adolescent boy) December, 2003 Jan Kempdorp, South Africa
• George Kgomogadi, 17 December, 2003 Jan Kempdorp, South Africa
• Andile Masabalala, 21 December, 2003 Tsomo, South Africa
• Thamsanqa Mnyaka, 19 December, 2003 Whittlesea, South Africa
• Myolisi Mayekiso, 18 December, 2003 Whittlesea, South Africa
• Callis Osaghae (boy, 2 months) August 18, 2003 Waterford, Ireland
• Sifiso Kobo (adolescent boy) November 21, 2002 Umtata, South Africa
• Zola Mjamba November 19, 2002 Umtata, South Africa
• Ryleigh Roman Bryan McWillis (Infant boy) August 22, 2002 Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Amina Jumanne (Female child) July, 2002 Takwa Village, Tanzania
• Dustin Evans (Infant boy) October, 1998 Cleveland, OH, USA
• Jeremie Johnson (Infant boy) July 18, 1995 Houston, TX, USA
• Demetrius Manker (Infant boy) June 26, 1993 Carol City, FL, USA
• Allen A. Ervin (Infant boy) July 8, 1992 Spartanburg, SC, USA
• Steven Christopher Chacon (Infant boy) November, 1986 San Francisco, CA,
• Christopher Dolezal (Infant boy) November, 1982 Des Moines, IA, USA
• Baby Boy Lebeau April, 1942 Quebec, Canada
• Roland Albert McCarty 1932 Jacksonville, FL, USA
• Aleck, Native American Baby Boy June 10, 1910 Island County, WA