China forcing birth control on Uyghur women to suppress population
In an attempt to limit the population of Muslim Uyghurs in western Xinjiang region, the Chinese government is forcing women into birth control or fitting in them contraceptive devices, according to a new research published on June 29.This comes 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, said the report 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 r...