Uzbekistan accused of forced sterilisation campaign

摘要

A nationwide campaign of forced sterilisation is being undertaken in Uzbekistan as the autocratic regime in the poverty-stricken former Soviet state looks to impose population controls and head off potentially enormous socioeconomic problems, it has been claimed. Victims and doctors have spoken to international media laying bare the extent of a secret sterilisation programme, which they say has been going on for years and which is estimated may have involved tens of thousands of women so far.