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Kinas Befolkningskontroll: Frigjørende eller Undertrykkelse?

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks,
and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion
on hundreds of thousands,
the interviews and data show.
Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization 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,
with the parents of three or more ripped away from their
families unless they can pay huge fines.
Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for
hidden children.

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Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth
rates among Uighurs and other minorities

as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population,
even as it 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, according to 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 'demographic genocide.'

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 penniless wife of a detained
vegetable trader, three days to pay a $2,685 fine for having
more than two children.

If she didn’t, they warned, she would join her husband and
a million other ethnic minorities locked up in internment camps ¬—
often for having too many children.

“God bequeaths children on you. To prevent people
from having children is wrong,” said Omirzakh, who tears up
even now thinking back to that day.
“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, 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.

The hundreds of millions of dollars the government pours into birth
control has transformed Xinjiang from one of China’s fastest-
growing regions to among its slowest in just a few years,
according to new research obtained by The Associated Press
in advance of publication by China scholar Adrian Zenz.

“This kind of drop is unprecedented …. there’s a ruthlessness to it,”
said Zenz, a leading expert in the policing of China’s minority
regions.
“This is part of a wider control campaign to subjugate the Uighurs.”

China’s foreign ministry called the story “fabricated” and “fake news”,

saying the government treats all ethnicities equally and protects
the legal rights of minorities.

“Everyone, regardless of whether they’re an ethnic minority or
Han Chinese, must follow and act in accordance with the law,”
ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Monday when asked
about the AP story.

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