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Sunday, April 25, 2010

China To Sterilise 10,000 To Curb Births

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.

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.'

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1 comment:

  1. Scandalous!

    Now that is definitely a breach of human rights and a terrible dictatorship regime.

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