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<\/figure>\nMeanwhile Akiwacu neither confirms nor denied whether she practiced her labia elongation but she knows many about the practice.<\/p>\n
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{Miss Rwanda has dismissed the process whereby a girl who is in her puberty stage gently pulls her inner labia outwards saying that such practice destroys Today\u2019s Rwandan culture.
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The process of labia elongation or in Kinyarwanda: Gukuna Imishino\/ Guca Imyeyo, was practiced for a long time by young girls as a way to prepare them to become fully grown women.<\/p>\n
Speaking to this site\u2019s reporter Miss Rwanda 2014, Akiwacu Colombe said this practice nowadays adds nothing good rather than undermining the Rwandese culture.<\/p>\n
She insisted that the practice is no longer important and calls it very primitive.<\/p>\n
She says the practice has gradually disappeared due to social and cultural advance.<\/p>\n
Akiwacu says \u201cLabia elongation is the oldest culture in the Rwandan society, but I think as the development comes, culture also develops. For me this is not something we have to do because the practice can even cause some diseases. But everyone has a choice about this practice depending on how she is familiar with it.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile Akiwacu neither confirms nor denied whether she practiced her labia elongation but she knows many about the practice.<\/p>\n {{WATCH THIS VIDEO}}: <\/figure>\n