A Uyghur doctor, who is currently in exile, has revealed that he was forced to perform operations on women in China as part of the country’s attempts to control its ethnic Turkic minority population.

The Uyghur community is mostly composed of Muslim minority group that largely lives in China’s northwestern autonomous territory of Xinjiang.

About 11 million Uyghurs live in Xinjiang, and researchers estimate that over one million of them are being held in “re-education” camps likened to detention centers, reports Vice.

Reports from inside Xinjiang reveal widespread government surveillance and religious crackdown, and those inside the camps have reported being subjected to forced labor and political indoctrination, reports the news portal.

Speaking to news channel ITV, the doctor revealed that she performed 500 to 600 operations on Uyghur women including forced contraception, forced abortion, forced sterilisation and forced removal of wombs.

She told the British news channel that on at least one occasion a baby was still moving when it was discarded into the rubbish. 

The doctor is currently in Istanbul.

Turkey is home to around 50,000 Uighurs who fled from China, reports ITV.

Source: India Blooms

BDST: 1600 HRS, SEP 12, 2020
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