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The dark history of Norway

Several million Indian women may have been pressured to sterilize themselves with Norwegian money. It reveals New Time in this week's issue.




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

In the American book Fatal Misconception – The Struggle to Control World Population, which came out this March, author Matthew Connelly describes how Norway, along with Sweden, contributed to comprehensive sterilization programs in India. This is the first time this substance has been collected between two berms outside Norway.

Connelly tells a story of how Western "family planners" forced lower population growth among the world's poor, and how feminists, conservationists, racial hygienists, and health professionals joined forces to pursue social engineering in the Third World. Norway has a central place in this story. Norad financed the sterilization of five million Indian women, while the Storting was kept out. This is Norad's dark history, and it lasted right up to 1995.

-Women were offered large sums of money to be sterilized, says Sunniva Engh, who has written a doctoral dissertation on the Norwegian "effort" in India.

- We know that the Norwegian authorities knew about what was going on, because they sometimes reacted to the bad conditions. But at no time did Norway consider withdrawing from the program.

Read the full article in this week's issue of New Time

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