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Tibetan women are also forcibly prevented from having children, despite supposedly being exempt from China's strict birth-control laws, the film's director Jezza Neumann discovered.
Measures include monitoring menstrual cycles, forced abortions and sterilisation if women cannot afford a fine for having a second child.
One woman, a married farmer, described her agony at a forced sterilisation operation without anaesthetic.
Etc etc etc
by bugscuffle on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 02:47:41 PM PDT
applied to all Chinese? You're aware they have a massive overpopulation problem, right?
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by Opakapaka on Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 03:11:28 PM PDT
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supposed to be exempt from the one-child policy.
All ethnic minorities are. There is no fine for having a second child. The fine is paid by those of the Han majority who elect not to follow the one-child policy.
But I am curious to see this Neumann documentary.
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by beijingbetty on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 07:14:57 AM PDT
wide narrow
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