China ‘carrying out demographic genocide’ against Uyghur Muslims
The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uyghurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population. This is taking place even as the government encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.
While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known. This is according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents, and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor.
The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide”.
The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks.It also forces intrauterine devices, sterilisation and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show.
Even while the use of IUDs and sterilisation has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang. The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply.
Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found. Parents of three or more children are ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.
A climate of terror around having children
After Gulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, had her third child, the government ordered her to get an IUD inserted. Two years later, in January 2018, four officials in military camouflage came knocking at her door anyway.
They gave Omirzakh, the destitute wife of a detained vegetable trader, three days to pay a 2,685 USD fine for having more than two children.
If she did not, they warned, she would join her husband and a million other ethnic minorities locked up in internment camps, often for having too many children. Omirzakh, who gets tearful even now thinking back to that day, said:
God bequeaths children on you…
To prevent people from having children is wrong
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.
Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60% from 2015 to 2018, which is the latest year available in government statistics.
Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone, compared to just 4.2% nationwide, statistics show.
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All this info based on a very dubious source already discredited by Grayzone numerous times. Attached analysis from a diff source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/hi8m92/in_response_to_the_new_antichina_news_on/
Indeed. The same black propaganda narrative was told about Tibet as well. When a team finally went to Tibet to investigate the story collapsed.
https://savetibet.org/new-report-disputes-charges-of-forced-family-planning-in-tibet/
The Canary editors are doing their audience a disservice by piling on the anti-China bandwagon. What’s the use of alternative media if it parrots the empire’s lies?
Hmm not a good look talking up china the known perpetrators of the most successful genocide to date, on both how discreet it was for its scale and how much more massive it is then even the current atrocities by the western corpo/capitalist nazi’s, recently combo’d with the fact this article has been edited late last year when the canary was bought out (sorry I mean partnered up haha). Sad that what was the last bastion of reliable news has been capitalised and nazified even if its a different faction to the ones they are ok with critazising. Also these fucking chines bots are really the cherry on on this shit cake of the devolution of the canary.
Its still better then looking in other locations but this is a prime example of how capitalism will never allow a true anti capitalist/morally decent voice to exist within its structure . Also to cut off any thoughts that cHiNa iS cOMmunist tHo!, yes even tho china calls itself communist its definitely capitalist to the point it you could probably go beyond that and say its hyper capitalist/what capitalism was always intended to be before 2 world wars made it addobt ironically communist values which led to the supposed “golden age of capitalism” and what gave boomers the stable and arguably best quality of life any humans have ever had, again until ironically boomers did away with it because their slefish and greedy (on average).