Chinese state holds parents hostage in sterilisation drive

[jody]

Chinese state holds parents hostage in sterilisation drive

Hundreds of senior citizens have been held captive in Chinese government offices as part of a campaign by family planning officials to force their children to submit to sterilisation.

The elderly people are parents of children suspected of flouting strict family planning rules in the southern Chinese city of Puning. According to the Nanfang Rural News, the local government has drawn up a list of nearly 10,000 people who are suspected of planning to have a second or third child. Around half that group has agreed to comply with sterilisation.

The 1,377 detained people include some of those who have so far refused, but mostly consist of their parents. Witnesses said that they were being held in cramped, damp conditions, including one group of 200 which had been herded into a hundred-square-metre room. "The room was too small for all the people to lie down and sleep," the Nanfang Rural News said. "The young ones had to stand or squat." The detainees are being lectured on family planning rules.

If citizens believe they have a right to health care and jobs provide by China, then they should not object if China exercises its sovereign right to control every aspect of a citizens lives.

[PDJane]

1. That's an interesting conclusion...........

It's faulty, but what the hell.

China is a Stalinist country; the reason for the control of fertility is that the population of china is so high that they can't feed their own people, and the pollution from all those people is killing the environment. The control is necessary; well, unless you have some more palatable way of controlling the population. Keep in mind that starvation of the population is unpalatable, and polluting the entire continent with fallout or bio-chemical weapons is unfeasible, and war with the Chinese is an iffy proposition.