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| Chinese President Xi Jinping Photo Credit: Janne Wittoeck / Flickr |
In an investigative article released on June 28, the Associated Press
again exposed the Chinese government for attempting to systematically control
the population of Chinese Muslims by forcing intrauterine devices,
sterilization, and abortion on minority women.
Minority families who break China's arbitrary child limit face large fines,
imprisonment in re-education camps, or government agents taking their children away to orphanages for indoctrination. The AP's
sources called China's actions "demographic genocide."
Dr. Joanne Smith Finley, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle
University in the U.K., told the AP, “It’s genocide, full stop. It’s not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow,
painful, creeping genocide. These are direct means of genetically reducing the
Uighur population.”
Forced abortion as a means of population control by a totalitarian government
is a horrible violation of human rights. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a
statement to Reuters
about the situation, saying, “We call on the Chinese Communist Party to
immediately end these horrific practices and ask all nations to join the
United States in demanding an end to these dehumanizing abuses.”
