Sterilization victims organize campaign of justice in Peru

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CCTV

Sterilization victims organize campaign of justice in Peru
Reporter: Dan Collyns 丨 CCTV.com

05-30-2016 06:06 BJT

More than 300,000 Peruvian women and men were sterilized when Alberto Fujimori was president in the 1990s, according to health ministry figures. The government said the procedures were voluntary. Thousands of those on the receiving end maintain they were forced. Now they’ve organized a campaign for justice.

In Peru’s capital Lima, thousands march against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori. Their name references the number of registered victims which from a massive campaign of alleged forced sterilization in the 1990s.

Fujimori, who served as her father’s first lady during the late 1990s, has blamed medical staff for the sterilizations. However, there is testimony from an official investigation that the orders came directly from the health ministry.

Most of the women were poor, many illiterate and lived in Peru’s Andes mountains. Now, the victims are for the first time and being registered, giving them the right to state compensation. nJulio Arbizu, the lawyer representing the victims says it’s a human rights crime.


Read more: http://english.cctv.com/2016/05/30/VIDEpvCeYPsKZGuMQ4hzVA32160530.shtml

[forest444]

1. They did the same thing in Mississippi in the 1950s, famously.

Its best known victim was probably Fannie Lou Hamer, who went on to become a leading figure in the civil rights struggle.

Forced sterilization has been inflicted in many other places, of course (most notably during the Third Reich, in Guatemala under Ríos Montt, in India under Indira Gandhi, and even against Canada's indigenous communities as late as 1970).

Will we see a return to the use of atrocities as public policy in a Keiko Fujimori administration? Your guess is as good as mine.

If she's even half as corrupt as her father was, the scandals may run her out of office even before any such abuses do.

[uhnope]

2. Roma (Gypsies) were forcibly sterilized in the USSR/Warsaw Pact under the Soviet Russia influence

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and it continued after the wall came down

[reddread]

3. aint like we dont do the same thing

Im sure they are voluntary tubal litigations offered to homeless women or prisoners?
It could not be more obvious.
the scandals are infrequent.

[forest444]

4. Excellent point.

Even in today's Europe, as you know, many a right-wing politician (usually city mayors) scores points by harassing them in one way or another.

Few people in this world have been persecuted by so many governments as have the Romani people.