WHERE ARE ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS

CHINA - THE VIOLENT WAR ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN

The Dying Rooms Documentary allowed the world to see what the Chinese authorities have been doing for the past 20 years. The deliberate brutality, starvation and death of abandoned children - mainly girls - but also boys. The programme mentioned briefly the reason for this routine slaughter - China's one-child policy. However, they failed to make a programme on how the one-child policy is carried out and how it results in forced abortions, sterilisations and the brutal treatment of women.

Official Policy

1. During the first three years of marriage the couple is not allowed to have a child.
2. Then the couple is allowed one child.
3. When a woman is discovered pregnant with a second child, she is faced with forced abortion and the forced fitting of an IUD or a sterilisation. The state controls all basic necessities so those disobeying the law are severely punished in numerous ways. Those obeying are rewarded.
4. In Tibet, which is under Chinese occupation, the one-child policy is used to reduce the number of births from native Tibetan women; while Chinese immigrants are encouraged to have more than one child.
5. In March 2008, the Chinese Family Planning Minister announced that China will maintain its one-child policy for at least another decade. The policy has prevented about 400 million births. The law has led to a gender imbalance. There is also a worry about China's aging population. Those 60 years of age and older are expected to make up more than 200 million in the next seven years.

"Pregnant women are forced to attend 'study classes away from their families until they agree to have abortion; the authorities imprison their husbands until their fugitive wives return for the required surgeries, cut off food, water and wages for non-compliant families, confiscate their possessions and expel them from or dismantle their houses."

Chi An - a Chinese woman living in exile in the USA

China - Guilty of Child Killing

"In the inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot hospital doctors practice what amounts to infanticide...After inducing labour, doctors routinely smash the baby's skull with a forceps as it emerges from the womb. In some cases...new- borns are killed by injecting formaldehyde into the soft spot of the head..."

 
M. Weisskopf, Washington Post, January 1985 reporting from China

Slaughter of Girl Children

• Among peasant families, a son is the only assurance of security in old age. Daughters in China  join the families of their husbands and are in no position to support their own ageing parents.
• Because of this, Chinese peasants destroy first-born daughters in the hope that they can try again for a son. In 1981 the Chinese media acknowledged the connection between female infanticide and the one-child policy.
• This rule has caused a disdain for female infants; abortion, neglect, abandonment, and even infanticide have been known to occur to female infants. The result of such draconian family planning has resulted in the disparate ratio of 114 males for every 100 females among babies from birth through children four years of age. Normally, 105 males are naturally born for every 100 females.
• "Twenty-five million men in China currently can’t find brides because there is a shortage of women," said Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute. "The young men emigrate overseas to find brides."
• The imbalances are also giving rise to a commercial sex trade; the 2005 report states that up to 800,000 people being trafficked across borders each year, and as many as 80 percent are women and girls, most of whom are exploited.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

• The Chinese government and the western world is responsible for the brutal regime in China. International Planned Parenthood Federation (to which the Irish Family Planning Association is a branch) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) have given more than $100 million to the Chinese government to ensure that they implement their one-child policy. (Choices in Childbearing. Robert Whelan)

• The Irish government is responsible. They gave £140,000 of taxpayers monies to UNPF for 'world population programmes'. Your taxes helped pay for forced abortions, sterilisations and infanticide. They have never condemned the Chinese government for what they are doing to their women and children, instead they sent a 100-strong delegation to the Beijing Conference. We have yet to hear a member of government call for sanctions on China. We import £145 million worth of Chinese goods into Ireland every year.

• The media is responsible. The media have always failed to outrightly condemn the brutal one-child policy. Some media "personalities" use their fame to actively promote the Chinese programme. David Bellamy, the TV naturalist, has praised the "Chinese model" as "a fantastic story of success". The Irish Independent published Mr. Bellamy's advertisements calling for your donations to continue his work in the area of population control.

Youth Defence, since its foundation in 1992, has campaigned against the Chinese one-child-policy. The same politicians who profess horror and anger ignored our campaign and our request not to fund these brutalities with Irish taxpayers monies. You can express your displeasure to the Department of Foreign Affairs.