China Forces Sterlization on 10,000 Citizens

[~Mystery~]

April 23 10

Quote:Health authorities are planning to sterilise nearly 10,000 people in southern China over the next four days as part of a population control programme.

A woman carries a child at the central railway station in Shanghai

The rule of one child per family has been in force for decades

Some of the people in Puning City will be forced to have the procedure carried out against their will.

Amnesty International says forced sterilisation "amounts to torture".

Reports in the Chinese media say that Puning Health authorities in Guangdong Province have launched a special campaign to sterilise people who already have at least one child in order to ensure local birth control quotas are met.

Chinese newspaper reports say that those who refuse to be sterilised have seen their elderly mothers or fathers taken away and detained.

Hundreds of people in Puning are said to have been locked up.

Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, said: "It is appalling that the authorities are subjecting people to such an invasive procedure against their will.

"Reports that relatives are imprisoned as a means of pressurising couples into submitting to surgery are incredibly concerning.

"The Puning City authorities must condemn this practice immediately and ensure that others are not forcibly sterilised."

More than 1,300 people in the city have been held in local government buildings where they were given "lectures" on China's family planning regulations.

Huang Ruifeng is the father of three girls.

"Several days ago, a village official called me and asked me or my wife to return for the surgery," Huang told the local paper. "Otherwise they would take away my father."

He refused.

His father was later rounded up and detained by the authorities.

According to Puning rules, farmers are allowed to have a second child if the first child was a girl.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World- ... 3125?f=rss

Gah Wow really? these last few days sucked on a global scale.

[psychopath]

Lol...wow. Like seriously, there's gota be better ways to control the population(more condoms, better laws etc) but I'm not surprised as China likes to deal with things fascistly.

[Ceiling Cat]

As much as population control is needed, and something should be done - this is highly unnecessary. Why can't they just threaten with a fine or something, instead of wasting resources on some questionable surgeries?

[The Desert Fox]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:Why can't they just threaten with a fine or something

Fining people for having sex? Oh lawd.

[psychopath]

Maybe they should do is only sterlilise people that go over the limit, that way it's a sort of punishment.

[HeartofShadows]

Reminds me of that book series I red in high school where they only allowed 2 children and killed the third child, now what was that name again..

Oh and china gives nobody any surprise when they pull this.