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clined by some 19 percent over the last nine years. Arslan Alptekin,
the son of the late leader Isa Yusuf Alptekin, recounts the stories of two
of the hundreds of women who have died after forced abortions:
On May 6, 1986, a 29-year-old woman by the name of Turahan
Aysem died from loss of blood after an abortion had been per-
formed on her. In August, 1997, a woman called Cholpanham from
the Toksu district of East Turkestan was forced to have an abortion
because she was pregnant, and her husband was fined 3,000 yuan …
Taken from her home by force, the woman fled the clinic at the first
opportunity, took shelter in a cemetery and gave birth by herself. She
was then taken home by another individual. However, she was de-
tained again following a tip-off, and the baby was killed by being
plunged into hot water at the police station she was taken to. Unable
to bear the agony of that, the mother also died. 56

One official from East Turkestan who did not want to identified
said that, in a town of 200,000 people, some 35,000 pregnant women
were subjected to government "checks", and 686 were obliged to have
abortions. 993 women were forced to discontinue their pregnancies,
and 10,708 women were forced to undergo sterilization. Again, accord-
ing to the same official, in another town of 180,000 people only about
1,000 women were allowed to give birth (one woman out of every 35).

At the same time, 40 people were sacked from their jobs because their
wives were pregnant. 57
Similar examples of such brutal family planning methods have
been employed by dictators and despots in order to impose their own
ideologies and secure their own regimes. One such was Pharaoh, who
has gone down in history for the suffering he inflicted on a people who
refused to abide by his false man-made religion, but had faith in Allah.
Just like the atheist leaders in Red China, Pharaoh tried to prevent the

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