Also A CNN report found that some Uighur women were forced to use birth control and undergo sterilization as part of a deliberate effort to reduce birth rates among minorities in Xinjiang.
In its response, the Xinjiang government vehemently denied the genocide claims, instead arguing that the Uyghur population has been growing “steadily” over the past decade and that Xenjiang’s report “does not correspond to the real situation in Xinjiang.”
According to the government, Xinjiang’s population grew by more than 3 million people or about 14% between 2010 and 2018, while Uighur’s population is growing faster than the region’s average rate.
“The rights and interests of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have been fully protected,” the reply said. “The so-called ‘genocide’ is pure nonsense.”
Birth rate dip
But the government did not dispute the increase in sterilization or the difference in the proportion of new intrauterine devices (IUDs) between Xinjiang and the rest of mainland China. While IUD implants have sunk overall in China, dropping to just 21 out of 100,000 people in 2018, they are becoming increasingly common in Xinjiang.
The Xinjiang government said in its response that the birth rate in the region dropped from 15.88 per 1000 people in 2017 to 10.69 per 1000 people in 2018. “This reduction was due to the widespread implementation of the family planning policy,” Fax said.
The Xinjiang government’s sudden decline in population has led Beijing’s family planning policies to finally be properly implemented in the region after 2017.
“Compared to the year 2018, the number of newborns decreased by about 120,000, with about 80,000 people due to better implementation of family planning policy in accordance with the law,” it said in a response to CNN. . The government insisted that those who have followed the family planning policies did so voluntarily.
The government blamed the remaining 40,000 fewer children for boosting education and economic growth, resulting in fewer children in the region. The Xinjiang government has not included the region’s 2019 birth figures.
“As part of China, Xinjiang implements family planning policies in accordance with national laws and regulations, and does not formulate and implement family planning policies for an ethnic minority.”
But Zenz pointed out that changes in natural birth rates should occur over several years or a decade, not in the space of 12 to 36 months.
In light of the government’s claims that adherence to family planning policies was voluntary, Zenz questioned that “probably 17 times more women want to be sterilized.”
In a statement to CNN, he said that Han Chinese scholars in Xinjiang themselves had written that Uighurs resisted any form of contraception (and especially sterilization).
In his fax, the Xinjiang government also personally attacked Zhenz, saying he was “deliberately fabricating lies” and accusing him of being a religious fanatic who believes he opposes China “under the leadership of God.” Is.
Zhenz denied the Chinese government’s allegations, saying he was “resorting to personal attacks” because he could not deny his research. “Beijing has more attacks on Uighur witnesses than such personal attacks on me,” he said in a statement.
Attack on women
The Xinjiang government has banned CNN. The article also cited claims made by two women Uighurs cited by Zumrat Dawat and Gulbakhar Jalilova.
Dawat said she was forced to undergo sterilization by the local government in Xinjiang when she went to a government office to pay a fine for having too many children. Davut also said he has been in a detention in Xinjiang for about three months since March 2018.
In her response, the government said Daut had never been inside a voluntary “education and training center”, the name had been used by the Chinese government for alleged detention centers, and she had signed a form agreeing to a procedure known as tubal ligation. .
Jalilova claimed he suffered humiliation and torture when he was inside the camps and said he was raped by one of his bodyguards.
The Xinjiang government confirmed Jalilova’s claims that she had been detained for 15 months from May 2017, and alleged that she had been “arrested on suspicion of aiding terrorist activities.” She was released on bail in August 2018, after which she returned to Kazakhstan.
In his statement, the government denied that Jalilova had been raped or tortured, saying that all her rights had been “fully guaranteed” and that the staff in her cell could prove it.
When asked to respond to the Chinese government’s statement, Jalilova stood by his claims and demanded that Xinjiang officials provide his evidence. “Why don’t they show the video? Why don’t they show the photo during my time in jail that I’m well fed up and not shot. The camera works 24 hours a day,” he said.
“I am a citizen of Kazakhstan. What right did they have to detain me for years?”
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