To prevent people from having children is wrong,” said Omirzakh, who tears up even now thinking back to that day. The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview. Under China’s now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy, the authorities had long encouraged, often forced, contraceptives, sterilization and abortion on Han Chinese. While fines also apply to Han Chinese, only minorities are sent to the detention camps if they cannot pay, according to interviews and data. During the sterilization procedure, Han Chinese doctors injected her with anesthesia and tied her fallopian tubes — a permanent operation.

Source: Huffington Post June 29, 2020 09:33 UTC