China has been reported to be ‘forcibly sterilising’ women of the Uighur Muslim population in their country, as an attempt to ‘control their population’. It has been pushing birth control on them in an attempt to slash their population, and suppress the minority group. Meanwhile, it has been pushing for the Han community to have children, and increase the majority.
Reports have confirmed that the government constantly forces women of this community to take pregnancy tests, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilisation and even abortion on hundreds of thousands. Police raid their homes, and constantly strike terror in their minds, as they search for ‘hidden children’. People of this community are also sent to detention camps, where they are separated from their families, the only reason being ‘having too many children’. Once in the camps, the women are forced to take IUDs and ‘preventive shots’ so they don’t conceive.
As a result of this, birth rates have dropped by 60% in the last 3 years and this has caused an untoward shift in the demographic. Across the Xinjiang region, birth rates continue to plummet, falling nearly 24% last year alone — compared to just 4.2 % nationwide.
The United Nations has come out in opposition of it, as have several other countries, calling it ‘demographic genocide’. United States’ Secretary Mike Pompeo has also come in opposition of this and called it labelled as “shocking” and “disturbing” reports against China’s ruling Communist Party accusing them of coercive family planning against minority Muslims. The Chinese Ministry for Health, however, refused to comment on the same.