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February 1, 2010

Uighurs in East Turkistan Suffer from China’s Forced Abortions

by Fatma Disli, Today's Zaman, Turkey - China, which introduced a controversial one-child-per-family policy in 1979 as a measure to alleviate social, economic and environmental problems in the country, has been forcing Uighur mothers in East Turkistan to have abortions despite the fact that ethnic minorities are among the exemptions to this law.

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