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Photo Caption and Credit: Liu Xinwen was forcibly aborted in Shandong Province. Credit: Sky News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WRWF FILES COMPLAINT TO U.N. TO CONDEMN FORCED
ABORTION, MENTAL BREAKDOWN, SUICIDE AND BABY TRAFFICKING UNDER CHINA’S
ONE CHILD POLICY
Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers has filed a Complaint with the United Nations Commission on
the Status of Women (UNCSW) against the Chinese Government for the coercive
enforcement of China’s One Child Policy. (See attached, as well as the
electronic link below.) The Complaint chronicles the history of savagely cruel
and profoundly disturbing reports emerging from China over the past year,
including:
- In China’s Guangxi
Region, a man stabbed to death two government workers after they told him
he could not register his fourth child because he did not pay the “social
compensation fee.” He injured four
other workers, including severing the hand of one. “Crazed Chinese
father-of-four stabs two government officials to death over one child
policy.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
news/article-2376771/Chinese- father-kills-1-child-policy- officials-registering-4th- child.html 7/24/13. (Although this incident happened before August 1, 2013, it happened so close to the deadline that it was not included in our 2013 report, so we have included it here.)
- In Hunan Province, a
husband demanded compensation from the Chinese government, claiming that
his wife, Gong Qifeng, has suffered from schizophrenia and violent
behavior since she was forcibly aborted at seven months in November,
2011. “Forced abortion at 7 Months
– The Horror of China’s One Child Policy Sparks Further Outrage.” http://www.christianpost.com/
news/forced-abortion-at-7- months-the-horror-of-chinas- one-child-policy-sparks- further-outrage-101764/ 8/7/13; “Chinese couple seeks damages for forced abortion.” http://www.worldmag.com/2014/ 01/chinese_couple_seeks_ damages_for_forced_abortion 1/10/14
- In Shandong Province,
Liu Xinwen was dragged out of her home in the middle of the night by 20
officials, who kicked down her door and restrained her husband. They forcibly aborted her, six months
pregnant. “China Couple Speak of ‘Forced
Abortion.’” http://news.sky.com/story/
1150016/china-couple-speak-of- forced-abortion 10/4/13
- Ai Guangdong, a farmer
in Hebei Province, killed himself by drinking pesticide during a dispute with
family planning officials over fines for his over-quota children. Since the farmer did not have money to
pay the fines, family planning officials confiscated 3.5 tons of corn, the
entire savings of the family. Ai
Guangdong then visited the home of the Party Chief to dispute this
action. Finally the farmer drank
pesticide at the home of the Party Chief, and promptly died. “Farmer drinks poison after being fined
for violations of family planning policy.”
http://www.globaltimes.cn/
content/830847.shtml 12/8/13
- In Xinjiang Province,
four Uyghur women were forcibly aborted, one of them at nine months. As ethnic minorities, Uyghurs are
supposedly exempt from the One Child Policy. This is not the case. While they may
have more than one child, they are nevertheless subject to coercive
termination of out-of-plan pregnancies.
“Four Uyghur Women Forced to Abort Their Babies in Zinjiang.” http://www.rfa.org/english/
news/uyghur/abortion- 12302013050902.html; “Xinjiang authorities try to force six women to abort for violating one-child policy.” http://www.asianews.it/news- en/Xinjiang-authorities-try- to-force-six-women-to-abort- for-violating-one-child- policy-29925.html. 12/30/13
- An obstetrician in
Shaanxi province, Zhang Shuxia, was convicted of trafficking seven
infants, after she had convinced their parents that the infants were
seriously ill or deceased. She was
given a suspended death sentence.
It has been estimated that 70,000 children a year are trafficked in
China. The doctor sold boys at a
premium, costing more than twice as much as girls. “Obstetrician convicted in Chinese
baby-trafficking case.” http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/
obstetrician-convicted-in- chinese-baby-trafficking-case/ 1/16/14; “Chinese doctor sentenced to death for selling babies.” http://nypost.com/2014/01/14/ chinese-doctor-sentenced-to- death-for-selling-babies/ 1/14/14
- In Guizhou Province, a
farmer and father of four committed suicide because he could not afford to
pay the fines to enroll his children in school. His wife stated, “He said to me before he
cut his wrists, ‘What did we bring them into the world for, to be as dumb
as cattle? I cannot see my children
grow up uneducated.’” After his death, the authorities provided the family
with a new house and money to educate the children. “Chinese father of
four commits suicide over one-child policy fines so his children can go to
school.” http://www.lifesitenews.com/
news/chinese-father-of-four- commits-suicide-over-one- child-policy-fines-so-his-c. 5/26/14
The Complaint
argues that the recent “reform” – really, a minor modification – of the One
Child Policy has done little or nothing to end coercive population control or
gendercide.
The Complaint
discusses the connection between China’s One Child Policy and sexual slavery, arguing
that the State Department’s recent promotion of China from a Tier 3 to a Tier 2
nation was baseless and unwarranted.
The Complaint also
discusses a recent study finding that multiple abortions leads to a greatly
increased risk of breast cancer.
The Complaint
decries the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of persecuting the children of
dissidents, including Anni Zhang, ten-years-old at the time of her persecution,
who is now being cared for in the United States by WRWF President Reggie
Littlejohn and her husband.
The Complaint
acknowledges the UNCSW for its “Agreed Conclusions” condemning forced abortion,
sterilization and contraception. It
nevertheless challenges the UNCSW to investigate the UNFPA (United Nations
Population Fund), which was found to be complicit with coercive family planning
by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
WRWF President Reggie Littlejohn stated: “The mayhem caused by China’s One Child
Policy continues unabated and has taken some troubling new twists, with people
being driven to mental breakdown, murder and suicide, as well as an
obstetrician using her position of trust in order to traffic babies. The minor modification of the Policy that
took place on January 1 of this year has failed to solve these problems. The One Child Policy does not need to be
modified. It needs to be abolished.”
The full Complaint
can be read here: http://www.
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