1. Forced Abortion and Sterilization on Uyghur Women

     To restrain and control the natural growth of the Uyghur population, the Chinese government has carried out a coercive birth control and forced sterilization policies among the Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan since 1984. Since then, under the pretext of ensuring a steady growth in minority population", "improving the quality of minorities, and "eliminating economic inequalities, the Chinese government has launched a series of extensive birth control and forced sterilization campaigns all over Eastern Turkistan targeting the Uyghur women. Officially, the one child policy only applies to the nationalities over 10 million population in China. Eastern Turkistan (officially Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), with a Uyghur population of 7.2 million (according to the Chinese statistics in 1990), is regarded as a "minority nationality" and is in theory not subject to the provisions of family planning legislation in China. But in practice, the birth control and sterilization policies have been actively promoted and encouraged by the Chinese government in the Uyghur towns and villages of Eastern Turkistan ever since 1984.The Chinese government has set up a large number of family planning work force and birth control clinics in all the hospitals of Eastern Turkistan. Every year, in order to speed up the implementation of birth control and sterilization policies toward the indigenous Uyghurs, mobile family planning teams are sent out to countryside areas for conducting mass abortion and sterilization. The pregnant women are usually loaded in a truck with police escort and forced to conduct abortion and sterilization. Those Uyghur women who refuse to conduct abortion are forcibly operated upon. The birth control policies and regulations imposed on Uyghurs affect both Uyghur women and children. Besides the complex rules controlling how my children Uyghurs can have legitimately, there are a series of fines and punishments for Uyghur couples who break the rules and have an unauthorized child/ren. Under these rules, the Uyghur children who are born without state authorization can be denied residency, food, health-care, and even schooling. The attached fine for the first child is 3'000 (US$360) and the second is 5000 (US$600). Even though, the Uyghurs who live in cities are allowed to have two children and the ones live in rural areas are allowed to have three, but most of the times they are denied to have more than one child with an excuse of having no extra quotas. Those who want to have more than one child are usually discouraged by the government through social benefits and other further restrictions. Every year, the Chinese family planning officials claim that the birth control and sterilization plans among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang (Eastern Turkistan) have been successfully implemented, and it has fulfilled the state requirements. A Chinese birth control doctor once revealed that in a town of 200 thousand,there were 35 thousand child-bearing women subject to government checks. Of that number, 686 women were forced to undergo a curettage, 993 were forced to discontinue their pregnancies and 10708 women were forced to undergo sterilization. According to the source, in order to fulfill the quota of abortions sometimes Chinese doctors are forced to kill the new-born minority babies. As a result, this birth control system has led to the deaths of many Uyghur mothers and Uyghur children every year. In another town, which had a population of 180 thousand, only one thousand women were allowed to give birth to their children. In other words, only one out of 35 women in the city was allowed to deliver a child. The same situation exists throughout the entire country. This, in fact, directly contradicts the constitution of P.R. China and its stated policies of implementing special and preferential population policies for minority nationalities.Underpinning China's birth control policy is an ideological and nationalistic concept that minorities in China are "racially inferior to Han-Chinese. Since 1988, China's controversial eugenics plan to raise "population quality has been particularly directed at national minorities, including Uyghurs, Tibetans and Mongolians. In 1994, the forced abortion and sterilization of Uyghur women was put in the top agenda in Xinjiang for the next Five Year Plan" of China. The aim was of course to destroy the balance and the natural growth of Uyghurs and confine the Uyghur population in a very limited size by taking all the extreme measures. The current Uyghur population size is only 0.7% of the total Chinese population. To restrict and control the natural growth of a population of this size in any country is to totally annihilate them. Therefore, the Chinese birth control policy of forced abortion and sterilization to Uyghurs is not a policy of ensuring the overall quality of Uyghur population. On the contrary, it is to gradually and "legally" exterminate and genocide Uyghurs by imposing upon them all the political, economic and social means and restrictions. An Uyghur health official in Urumqi said, If our children are limited [through Chinese birth control], we will disappear soon.

                                                                                             (1/10/1990 <<Newsweek>> magazine).

    2. State-supported Mixed Marriages

     Since mixed marriage is the fastest and most effective way of assimilating and sinifying Uyghur population in Eastern Turkistan, Chinese government has staunchly promoted and encouraged mixed marriages between Han-Chinese people and Uyghurs from 1990. The Chinese government has promised better pay, better job, better housing, better health-care, better/further education and and even bonus money to the Uyghur youth as a bait to seduce them to marry Han-Chinese. They even send Han-Chinese girls with a stipend of 3000 yuan (US$360) to remote Uyghur villages and attract Uyghur males. The Uyghurs, who have married Han-Chinese, want divorce are heavily fined and seriously threatened by the Chinese government. The fine for divorce can be as high as Y4'000-5000 yuan (US$480-600) while the average salary is only Y200 yuan (US$24) per month. The divorce will automatically result the termination of all social benefits for the Uyghur including his/her job, pay, housing, health-care, education etc,. As a result, most of the Uyghurs stay reluctantly married for fear of the heavy fines and of losing all the social benefits. These temptations and fears from the Chinese government contribute a lot to the assimilation and sinification of Uyghurs in Eastern Turkistan. With a steady flow of some seven thousand Han-Chinese settlers into Eastern Turkistan daily and the state-supported mixed marriages among Uyghurs and Han-Chinese, the entire Uyghur society is disrupted. Uyghur families are torn apart and become dysfunctional, and at the end, are broken down. The Uyghur youth, as a nucleus of the entire Uyghur society, are deceived, misled and confused by the state-supported mixed marriage policies. They have neither become a productive member of the Uyghur society nor have enjoyed a stable family. They simply become the scapegoats of Chinese policies aimed at assimilating and sinifying the entire Uyghur people into the dominant Chinese family.