"A nurse put me on a stretcher and tied my hands and feet," said Sabina Huillca. "I asked them to bring me my little baby girl but instead they anesthetized me. When I woke up, the doctor was stitching my stomach. I started screaming, I knew I had been sterilized."
In Peru, during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori, 272,000 women and 22,004 men
were sterilized between 1996 and 2000 as part of the National
Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program. Most of the men and
women were indigenous, poor, and living in rural areas. The program's
alleged aim was to eradicate poverty through lower birth rates, but
evidence has emerged over the years that it was coercive and blatantly
violated reproductive rights. Read Full Article here
Last month, Public Prosecutor Marcelita Gutiérrez decided not to pursue charges of crimes against humanity against former President Fujimori and several staff members of the Ministry of Health. Gutiérrez stated
that instances of forced sterilizations of indigenous women were not
conclusive evidence that the practice was state policy and were, rather,
isolated cases.
https://intercontinentalcry.org/forced-sterilization-272000-indigenous-women-not-crime-humanity-public-prosecutor/
