Japan sterilisation victims seek justice

690 views · Published 18 April 2018 · 1:07 · Indexed 24 September 2026

Channel: AFP News Agency · 2018 · News & Politics

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A victim remembers the day she was taken to a hospital as a teenager and forcibly sterilised under a Japanese government programme. Now in her seventies, she speaks about the ordeal experienced by thousands of men and women under what has been called a "eugenics" programme -- a Japanese law in place until 1996 that mandated the procedure for people judged to have disabilities.

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