To prevent people from having children is wrong,” said Omirzakh, who tears up even now thinking back to that day. “They want to destroy us as a people.”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. Seven former detainees told the AP that they were force-fed birth control pills or injected with fluids, often with no explanation. But there was a catch – they had to take birth control pills beforehand.

Source: ABC News June 29, 2020 03:56 UTC