Sterilization Reports May Trigger Probe
From Times Wire Reports
The government is considering an opposition demand for a probe into allegations that as many as 60,000 women were forcibly sterilized, a government spokesman said. The newspaper Dagens Nyheter has reported that those judged to have “undesirable” racial characteristics or “inferior” qualities, such as poor eyesight or mental retardation, were sterilized under a program from 1935 to 1976.
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