Under China's 'one child' policy, Uighurs benefited from lax birth control measures. Now the tables have turned: Xinjiang’s minorities face forced IUDs, sterilizations and abortions - even as some Han Chinese are encouraged to give birth.
In 2017, the Xinjiang government also tripled the already hefty fines for violating family planning laws for even the poorest residents — to. While fines also apply to Han Chinese, only minorities are sent to the detention camps if they cannot pay, according to interviews and data. Government reports show the counties collect millions of dollars from the fines each year.
Seven former detainees told the AP that they were force-fed birth control pills or injected with fluids, often with no explanation. Many felt dizzy, tired or ill, and women stopped getting their periods. After being released and leaving China, some went to get medical check-ups and found they were sterile.
“I gave birth to too many children,” she said. “It shows I’m uneducated and know little about the law.” Another former detainee, Tursunay Ziyawudun, said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can’t have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb, she said.
Another woman, Gulbakhar Jalilova, confirmed that detainees in her camp were forced to abort their children. She also saw a new mother, still leaking breast milk, who did not know what had happened to her infant. And she met doctors and medical students who were detained for helping Uighurs dodge the system and give birth at home.
A former teacher drafted to work as an instructor at a detention camp described her experience with IUDs to the AP. Her IUD was designed to be irremovable without special instruments. The first 15 days, she got headaches and nonstop menstrual bleeding. One day, they turned up with a list of at least 200 Uighur women in her compound with more than two children who had to get sterilized, Dawut recalled.
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