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reunited it with its mother and sent the family home. Five officials
were waiting for them in their living room. During the ensuing argu-
ment, the officials grabbed the baby, dragged it out of the house and
drowned it in a paddy field in front of its parents. 54

Another important issue to consider when evaluating the Chinese
family planning policy, as implemented in East Turkestan in particular,
is the justifications given by the Chinese government in defending that
policy. The most striking of these is the slogan "Forming a better qual-
ity nation." One often comes across this Darwinist slogan in fascist
regimes, and it is a sign of the implementation of the theory of eugenics
in China, which first came to light in the nineteenth century. The theory

of eugenics means elimination of the sick and handicapped and the "im-
provement" of a race by encouraging healthy individuals to multiply.
The best known example was the systematic killing carried out by the
Nazis in order to build the Aryan race. (For details see Harun Yahya's
Fascism: The Bloody Ideology of Darwinism, Arastirma Publishing,
Istanbul, 2002).
The way the policy is implemented with regards to Muslims takes
on more serious dimensions when ruthlessness and cruelty are
unchecked. From time to time Chinese families are permitted more
than the allowed number of children (or only very mild punishments

are imposed for having larger families than allowed). Yet Muslims are,
under no circumstances, allowed to have more than one child. Muslim
women pregnant with a second child may be removed from their
homes, even during the eighth or ninth month of pregnancy, and the
baby removed. In fact, Chinese units generally move around from vil-
lage to village and town to town, loading women about to have a sec-
ond child onto trucks. The abortions are carried out under primitive
conditions, and as a result the mothers frequently die.

As a result of this policy, the birth rate in East Turkestan has de-

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