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The Xinjiang Regional Government sent a 6 page letter to CNN. It confirms our previous reporting of a huge drop in birth rate. But it insists a surge in sterilizations is "entirely voluntary" & it attacks the testimonies of 2 Uyghur women we interviewedhttps://t.co/nFmM6mdKp1— Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) September 21, 2020
    • artangels [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      the weirdest thing is the article does go in depth about the one child to two policy transition and how that effect ethnic minorities, but then pretends like it doesn't matter to the context?

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Most Uyghur people were exempt from the one child policy too. It's one of the historical frictions with some Han people in the region.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Erasing that contrast here is precisely one of the chief reasons the Xinjiang propaganda effort is being led by hardcore envangelical lunatics. They want Americans to equate birth control and contraception with genocide to mainstream their own insane views.