Several Uyghur women who were required by authorities in the XUAR to have intrauterine devices (IUDs) implanted or undergo tubal ligation surgeries as part of family planning policies detailed their experiences to RFA’s Uyghur Service. They described in recent interviews painful procedures that left them both physically and emotionally scarred, and suggested such measures are part of a bid by the government to eradicate their ethnic group.
Their stories follow a June 29 report about a dramatic increase in recent years in the number of forced sterilizations and abortions targeting Uyghurs in the region, which the author, German researcher Adrian Zenz, said may amount to a government-led campaign of genocide under United Nations definitions.
