Murderous Mayhem in a Chinese County.(Brief Article)

No one who has followed the international abortion scene for very long needs to be reminded that the Communist Chinese government has a record of forced abortion, coerced sterilization, and infanticide second in viciousness to no country on earth.

Almost as ignoble as the Chinese government's cruelty toward its own people has been the indefensible practice of many American newspapers to deny, downplay, or excuse away some of the most egregious violations of human rights of the last two decades. Indeed in the past few weeks stories that the Chinese had lightened up have once again popped up in the prestige press.

However a story in the August 5 London Sunday Telegraph brought back the old sense of nausea. According to Damien McElroy, "A Chinese county has been ordered to conduct 20,000 abortions and sterilizations before the end of the year after communist family planning chiefs found the official one-child policy was being routinely flouted."

This pattern of savagery--echoes of which extend back to the 1980s--was defended by Sven Burmester.

"For all the bad press, China has achieved the impossible," said the UN Population Fund representative in Beijing. "The country has solved its population problem."

Officials in the mountainous region of Huaiji have been given what the Telegraph described as a "draconian" target by provincial authorities in Guangdon (formerly known as Canton). Blame was square placed on the victims: people had "routinely flouted" the one-child-per-family policy. What unleashed the campaign were census reports that the average family in Huaiji county has five or more children.

Although women certainly have voluntary abortions, according to the Telegraph, many of the abortions will be forcibly conduced on peasant women. To expedite the killing, county officials have purchased expensive ultrasound equipment that ...