Posted on 09/18/2005 2:31:35 PM PDT by dinok
HORRIFYING revelations of forced abortions and compulsory sterilisation in China embarrassed the Beijing government last week just as President Hu Jintao took the international stage.
They have described brutal coercion that started last March when the local authorities panicked over the number of “unplanned births”.
Women told how they were held down as doctors jammed needles into them to induce abortions in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy.
One victim, Li Juan, 23, told Time that she was in the ninth month of pregnancy when a group of men pinned her down on a bed in a local clinic and plunged a poison-filled syringe into her abdomen.
“At first I could feel my child kicking a lot. Then after a while I couldn’t feel her kicking anymore,” she is quoted as saying.
Li’s baby girl appeared to be dead on delivery, but just to make sure the officials held the infant in a bucket of water next to the bed for several minutes.
Women with two children who were not pregnant were thrown on to operating tables for sterilisations. Some doctors botched the procedure, leaving patients in permanent pain.
Under Chinese regulations rural people may have more than one child if the firstborn is a girl or disabled. In Shandong, however, many women had given birth to more than two children. Lower-ranking Communist party officials were chastised for failing to enforce the law, a misdemeanour that often leads to dismissal or demotion.
They reacted by launching a sweep through villages, rounding up people with more than two children. Pregnant women had forced abortions, while both men and women were compulsorily sterilised.
According to numerous witnesses, the authorities held relatives and neighbours hostage, threatening them with torture so as to force victims to submit.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Old Democrats never die. They move to China and become more mainstream.
A country that has killed over 80 million of its own citizens in the 20th century is embarrassed by this, eh? I have a hard time believing that.
I have a dear friend who is from Beijing. She just doesn't believe these stories. She is educated and used to work for the government. This protected class just didn't see the horrors, and emotionally bought into the nationalism which is rampant. I understand loving your country--I do--but there is little analysis and probing thought about it there.
Let's see, a combination of blind nationalism, lack of morality, threats to one's neighboring nations Olympics on their soil at a time of all this...where have we seen this before. Nazi Germany in the 30's.
We have learned nothing. We are helping these fascists grow their industrial base.
Who are they kidding? The word "shame" isn't found in the lexicon of the psycopathic,murdering thugs who now rule China.
This is all out in the open, but it's convenient to ignore it.
Saddening ping!
They are embarrassed we found out.
Liberals even in China are not much different than they are here.
People like that inhabit Free Republic..........
dinok: No matter what we hear about Red China and the its lack of respect for human rights, I still hear from people doing business with them that we should ignore it because its good for the economy. Poeple like that make me sick."
Dazedcat:"People like that inhabit Free Republic..."
And they have no shame...its all about the cash to them.
"The word "shame" isn't found in the lexicon of the psycopathic,murdering thugs who now rule China."
One has to have core values and morality instilled in them to have shame. These thugs have neither.
Interesting story. I wonder if it is true.
Exactly what Howard Dean, the ACLU, ANSWER, Code Pinko,
GLB&T, NOW, and the rest of the DemoGenerate Culture
of Death, are pushing down americas throats with the aid of the despicable monsters they've gotten installed in our Courts.
True. In their eyes, getting caught was the crime, not what they did. Typical libs.
Communism is still killing people...100 million and counting.
Someone remind me: What is our trade deficit with the PRC?
“At first I could feel my child kicking a lot. Then after a while I couldn’t feel her kicking anymore,” she is quoted as saying.
But this is OK when the mother chooses it. God help us.
I've read stories like this for years, including one in Readers' Digest from a few years ago. And Readers' Digest does its fact-checking.
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