China's continuing 1-child holocaust documented

Chinese government poster from 1980s promoting its one-child policy

China's coercive one-child policy has resulted in sex-selection abortions of some 40 million baby girls and leads to about 70,000 children being sold every year, reveals a new undercover documentary to be shown on HBO next Monday.

"China's Stolen Children," narrated by Ben Kingsley, was made by filmmakers posing as tourists and tells of the after-effects of the country's strict population-control limit of one child per couple through the personal stories of several families.

Headed into its 30th year, the one-child policy is characterized as "the world's largest experiment in social engineering." It focuses on the plight of children sold out of fear of government punishment or stolen because of the nation's unnatural shortage of offspring.

Because of the Chinese government's obsession with being accepted as a member of the community of civilized nations, Beijing is portrayed as more interested in covering up the epidemic of child theft than in addressing the problem.

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"Legal abortions are commonplace for Chinese families in the one-child era," explain the documentary makers. "Moreover, with ultrasound machines allowing parents to determine gender at 4-5 months, many first-time pregnancies are aborted if the fetus is female. This selective (and illegal) practice is the result of China's traditional preference for sons; here and in other Asian cultures, brides migrate to husbands' families, leaving their own parents to fend for themselves in old age. Because of this, parents covet male babies. In the one-child era, as many as 40 million baby girls have been selectively aborted – creating a gender gap that has left millions of men with little hope of finding wives. And while the black market for male children remains robust, there is a growing demand for girls as well."

This growing "gendercide" problem was first revealed by WND in September 1997. It is also leading to unforeseen social and economic crises for China, as reported by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WND. An investigation by G2 Bulletin and WND also first revealed the extent of the child kidnapping rings that have flourished as a result of the one-child policy.

Nine years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three, according to the G2 Bulletin report.

China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common since the government's strict one-child family policy was introduced in 1980.

The birth rate fell from 37 per 1,000 people in 1952 to 12.9 per 1,000 in 2002. The death rate fell from 17 per 1,000 in the early years of the People's Republic of China to 6.4 per 1,000 in 2002.

This shortage of workers to support an aging population including more and more retirees will cause an economic crisis in China, say intelligence analysts.

Chinese adults desperate for children have fueled a major criminal industry in child kidnappings. So great is the shortage of young women in China, many men are taking to "purchasing" foreign "brides" – sometimes actually sex slaves. The price for Burmese women – many of whom are desperate because of poverty in that nation – is between $600 and $2,400, depending on youth and beauty.

Some Chinese couples who want a boy simply choose to abandon female infants to die.

"China's Stolen Children" is the 2008 BAFTA Award winner for best current affairs program. It is the directorial debut of Australian-born Jezza Neumann, who also shot and helped edit the film. It was produced by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods, who have co- directed and produced a number of projects over the years, including the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "The Dying Rooms" for Cinemax, which deals with the neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese orphanages. In 1998, they probed the exploitation of children over four continents in HBO's "Innocents Lost," which won an Emmy and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Television.

 

 

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