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| Plummeted birth rate in Xinxiang proves genocide and crimes against Uyghurs by China | | | Ankush Verma
Over decades, China has been responding with increasing force to the perceived threat to its internal peace from the Uyghur Muslims. Millions have been put into re-education camps (concentration camps), where besides being tortured, many are also subject to rape, abuse, illegal organ transport and executed. Along with this China has imposed forceful and stringent child control policy on Uyghurs.
It has been forcibly mass sterilising Uyghur women to supress the population and separating Uyghur children from their families and sent to orphanage. To this US State department in its annual report on human rights globally stated that China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity. This genocide is not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow, painful, creeping genocide.
According to Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), birth-rates in Xinjiang fell by almost half in the two years after the Chinese government implemented policies to reduce the number of babies born to Uyghur and other Muslim minority families. The report further stated that the figures show unprecedented declines which were more extreme than any global region at any time in the 71 years of UN fertility data collection, including during genocides in Rwanda and Cambodia. Such a steep decline is a result of China’s crackdown against Uyghur Muslims. The report further found that the birth-rate across Xinjiang fell by 48.74% between 2017 and 2019. In counties where the population was at least 90% non-Han Chinese, the birth-rate dropped by an average 56.5% between 2017 and 2018. This kind of drop is unprecedented and there is an apparent ruthlessness in it. This actually is part of a wider control campaign to subjugate the Uyghurs.
Studies have shown that child control policy for Uyghur was so brutal that women were often subject to coercive population control measures. The Jamestown Foundation report and other sources that analysed Chinese government statistics, shows that natural population growth in Uyghur areas had fallen dramatically, with some areas reporting a greater than 80 percent drop-in birth rates. The study further revealed that birth rate reduction targets were common in Xinjiang; one area reportedly set a birth rate target of near zero, intending to accomplish this through “family planning work.” In case if anyone fails to comply with the family planning targets, violators were punished by detention in an internment camp. In order to control the population of Uyghur Muslims to zero, the government also funded sterilization campaigns targeting Uyghur women; these were reportedly enforced by quarterly “IUD checks” and bimonthly pregnancy tests. Not only this there were indications that Uyghur women who had been put in internment camps were injected with drugs that cause a temporary or permanent end to their menstrual cycles and fertility. Some people have revealed the story of forceful organ removal. They say that the people in authority give shots and remove fetuses forcefully. They won’t ask the spouse’s permission or anyone else. If they say it’s illegal, they make the women get an abortion. Those who didn’t obey were sent to the camps. Now people are terrified of giving birth. Some women on record stated that they lost a part of their body, they lost their identity as women. They will never be able to have children again.
Uyghur women and other ethnic minorities are being threatened with internment in the camps for refusing to abort pregnancies that exceed birth quotas. To make law harsher for minorities there are provisions for financial and administrative penalties for births that exceed birth limits or otherwise violate regulations. The law as implemented requires each woman with an unauthorized pregnancy to abort or pay the social compensation fee, which can reach 10 times a person’s annual disposable income. The exact amount of the fee varied widely from province to province. The provinces like Xinjiang with considerable majority of Muslims have to pay much higher compensation fee as compared to other provinces. In case of inability to pay the compensation, the child along with family is barred from access to a wide array of government-provided social services and rights. Some parents avoided the fee by hiding children born in violation of the law with friends or relatives. And if this gets revealed, the child along with family and the relatives are put in the concentration camps where they are subject to various kinds of physical and mental torture and abuse.
However, Chinese government denies allegations of mistreatment, genocide and crimes against humanity, saying many of its policies – including the mass detention network it says includes vocational training centres – are anti-terrorism efforts. But these claims seem utterly false and manipulated. The independent media, research and human rights organisations have exposed the real picture of the so-called concentration camps where the basic human rights of the Uyghurs are violated vehemently. The reports of crackdown by Chinese forces on the minorities groups is no more a secret. Today, the world over knows how China is treating its minorities in the name of anti-terrorism efforts. |
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