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ICT Tibet Report Ignores Suffering Of Tibetan Women
“Women in Tibet continue to undergo hardship and are also subjected to gender-specific crimes, including reproductive rights violations such as forced sterilization, forced abortion, coercive birth control policies and the monitoring of menstrual cycles. There have been many reports of Tibetan women prisoners facing brutality and torture in custody” (UN Commission on Human Rights-Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, 27th February 2003) “China maintains that it doesn’t implement its one-child policy in minority regions such as Tibet, but we discovered that this wasn’t true. One woman told us how she’d been subjected to a forced sterilisation. The secret police broke into her house and said they would take all of her belongings if she didn’t go with them. Aspirin was the only anaesthetic she was given before they cut her open.“ (The Independent March 31, 2008) Such gross violations are either being denied by the International Campaign for Tibet, or regarded as being of insufficient concern as to merit a word of concern, Tibetan women terrorized by China’s population control officials have little indeed to be grateful for to Ms Mary Beth Markey, or her organization’s latest report.
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