Canada denounces the treatment reserved by China to Uighurs, and in particular to women of this Muslim minority who are victims of forced sterilization, “But what have we suffered here?” The same thing ! “. Since 2017, lawyer Alisa Lombard has taken the lead in the legal fight initiated by a hundred First Nations women who have undergone sterilizations without consent until 2018. Aged between 20 and 80 years old, they are claiming compensation for the federal government and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
“My clients were in shock when they learned, on February 22, that the Canadian Parliament unanimously adopted a motion condemning the People’s Republic of China,” she says. As a lawyer, but also as the daughter of an indigenous woman and mother of indigenous girls, Alisa Lombard took up the pen to denounce, in an open letter published in The duty on March 12, the hypocrisy of his country.
Without a word of explanation
MPs talk about “Moral clarity” against China’s actions? “ This moral clarity is sorely lacking in recognizing that indigenous communities have had very similar measures designed to prevent births imposed on them for decades. (…) It is high time that Canada officially recognized the same gender-based violence it has inflicted on Indigenous women and girls here. We must call it by its name: genocide “, she writes.
In 2001, an indigenous woman had just given birth to her sixth child. She is still under the effect of the epidural when she sees doctors and nurses busy around her. Without a word of explanation, without explicit consent, she has just undergone a tubal ligation.
In a testimony given on condition of anonymity to Radio-Canada, a woman from the Cree community, which represents 300,000 people mainly living in Alberta,
in Quebec and Saskatchewan, shares her experiences in 2001. She has just given birth to her sixth child at the hospital in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) and is still under the effect of the epidural when she sees doctors and nurses busy around her.
“They didn’t want to tell me what they were doing. I was asking questions to try to save time. I told them, no, no, I don’t want to do this, even though I wasn’t quite sure what they were doing at the time. I started to look around and I think I got it. I cried all along. “
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