Posted on 01/26/2011 8:04:35 PM PST by Steelfish
India's Silent Genocide Hindustan Times Samar Halarnkar, January 26, 2011
I remember being disturbed enough to stop watching the 2003 Hindi movie Matrubhumi(motherland). Set in the future, it depicted an Indian village populated only by men. It gets that way after a man, yearning for a boy, publicly drowns his newborn girl in a vat of milk, sparking a custom that wipes out women. So the men watch porn, fornicate with farm animals. A father marries his five sons to a woman from the outside and the six men take turns raping her. Eventually more men in the village get involved.
She is tied to the cow shed and gangraped every night. Matrubhumi was excessively brutal, I thought, but it addressed a silent, growing genocide that emerging India prefers to ignore.
At least 1,370 girls are aborted every day in India. For perspective, some 250 Indians die every day in road accidents. Terrorists killed about six people, on an average, every day in 2009. In the last two decades of economic progress, 10 million girls have died before being born. More are strangled, slowly starved or simply tossed in the trash.
This is mass murder on a scale unseen in any other country this century. Only China runs us close.
The overall Indian sex ratio should be at least 950 women to 1,000 men (Nature produces more males than females as boys are more vulnerable to infant diseases than girls). But the child sex ratio, the number of girls to every 1,000 boys in the age group zero to six, has dropped from 1,010 girls in 1941 to 945 in 1991 to 927 in 2001, according to census figures. The 2011 census will reveal a further decline based on mostly disturbing trends. .
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Ping!
Where’s the feminist outrage?
Similar situation in China. Guess what happens in both countries when they need “Lebensraum”?
So, I probably shouldn't take the family to see it??
Abortions per capita is a misleading statistic since it doesn’t tell us what is voluntary, what is involuntary, what is culturally forced upon (as in India); what is legally mandated as was China’s two-child policy; what is “forced” by incentives as in Singapore where the costs of government services including education increases with more children.
The hard truth, as the author of this article points out, is that this is a “silent” genocide because it’s an accepted part of the dominant culture. It is for civilized people to speak out against this barbaric and heinous atrocity no matter where or how it takes place.
http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheets/ForcedAbortionFactSheet.pdf
The country that aborts baby girls today, invades their neighbor tomorrow.
GE manufacturers all their ultra-sound machines in India,because it is the largest market. They are widely used to determine sex of babies and the girls are aborted.
GE...we bring good things to life..
Thanks- that was an informative piece of info.
You’re welcome.
If you ask me, almost all abortions are coerced, be they through economic, cultural, societal, career- or partner-relate pressures. It would take a mentally-ill woman to otherwise murder her own child “voluntarily”.
Of course, medical emergencies are a moral grey area.
I question this. It is illegal in every part of India to use ultrasound to determine the sex of a child. The notices are posted everywhere in every hospital I’ve been in (several so far, for various reasons). The penalty is against both the requester and the tech, and includes prison time, so there is high incentive to follow the law on both sides.
If abortions were restricted to "medical emergencies" only, there would be an astounding number of "medical emergencies".
The same M.D.s that preform abortions today, would not hesitate to so declare all unwanted babies.
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