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The Chinese government is tak stanley bottle ing draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to stanley kaffeebecher curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the countrys Han majority to have more children. In this 2018 photo, a Uighur child plays alone in the courtyard of a home at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China s Xinjiang stanley termosky region. AP photo While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of demographic genocide. The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang. The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid