The Chinese government is forcing Uighur women and members of other minorities to take birth control as part of a campaign to curb its Muslim population, according to a major investigation
Gulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, said the government ordered her to get an IUD inserted after she had her third child.
The wife of a detained vegetable trader said they told her that if she did not, she would join her husband and a"God bequeaths children on you. To prevent people from having children is wrong," a tearful Ms Omirzakh said.
Uighurs - who are predominantly Muslim - and other groups got more points on college entrance exams, hiring quotas for government posts and laxer birth control restrictions. "It's genocide, full stop," said Joanne Smith Finley, an expert in China based at Newcastle University.
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