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Uighur Muslim teacher details forced sterilisation abuses in China

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China has never had a clean track record of being a shining beacon for human rights, and the following tale does nothing to disprove this fact.

As reported by The Guardian, a teacher who has been strong-armed into teaching classes in Xinjiang internment camps has described how she was forcibly sterilised.

Qelbinur Sidik recounted how, in 2017, she and her only daughter were at university when local officials insisted that she must have an IUD inserted to prevent the unlikely prospect of another pregnancy.

Just over two years later, at 50, she was forced to undergo sterilisation as part of a government order to suppress birth rates of women from Muslim minorities.

Ms. Sidik had the device inserted after being threatened with arrest.

The Associated Press also reported the shocking statistic that, in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar, births collapsed by more than 60 per cent between 2015 and 2018, the last year for which government data was available, the AP found.

Nationwide, over the same period, births fell by only 4.2 per cent.

In related news, the leading actress of the Mulan live-action remake, Liu Yifei, has come under fire for her open support of the notorious Hong Kong police.

In addition, it was just last month that Hong Kong police raided a pro-democracy newspaper for allegedly 'colluding' with foreign forces.

The reports of China's degrading treatment of Muslims are sadly nothing new, but not many people actually know about the murder, torture and sexual abuse and assault being committed in these camps… some of which are against children.

Therefore, it is of the utmost importance that this campaign of terror and genocide is called out and highlighted at every opportunity possible.