Saturday, June 16, 2012

China: Woman forced to abort and body of dying child left on bed beside her

A girl kneels by her child's grave at a cemetary in ChinaChina’s one child massacre continues: a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy was forced to abort as she did not have enough money to pay the fine for breaking the one-child law.

She was forced to abort and then the tiny body of the seven month old child was left bleeding on a bed next to the woman. 
On 3 June, Feng Jianmei, a young Chinese woman from the country’s Shanxi region, experienced a double horror.

Missionary news agency AsiaNews reported that the woman was beaten and dragged into a vehicle by a group of Family planning employees, while her husband, Deng Jiyuan was at work. 

Population control had asked the family to pay 40 thousand Yuan (approximately 4 thousand Euro, the equivalent of three years’ work) for violating the one-child law. 

But they did not make the payment, so the authorities forced Jianmei to abort in her seventh month of pregnancy.
 
U.S. attorney, Reggie Littlejohn, who campaigns for the defence of women in China (Women's Rights Without Frontiers) and has spread the news in the West, stated: "This is an outrage. No legitimate government should commit or tolerate such an act. Those responsible should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.” 

AsiaNews recalled that forced abortions are still common practice in China, due to the strict observance of the one-child policy.
 
According to official statistics, 13 million abortions are carried out each year in China. Many of these forced. 
 
The dissident Chai Ling, one of the leaders of the Tiananmen movement, exiled in the U.S. and converted to Christianity, is engaged in the fight against forced abortions caused by the one-child law. 

Over a year ago, during a meeting of dissidents in front of the White House, Chai Ling said: "The application of the violent and brutal one-child policy is the greatest crimes against humanity currently taking place; it is the secret and inhumane gutting of mothers and children; it is the Tiananmen massacre repeated every hour in an infinite holocaust that has been going on 30 years.” 

A holocaust which people are too often keen to forget.