Coercive Population Control in Kilinochchi
- - on 09/13/2013
Recently, women in three Kilinochchi villages were subjected to coercive population control.
This incident occurred on August 31, 2013 – at the Veravil government divisional hospital in Kilinochchi. The affected women reside in Valaipaddu, Veravil and Keranchi[1] ; all three are coastal villages.
On August 30, the hospital staff and volunteers attached to Veravil divisional hospital informed community members residing in the three villages that any woman with a child under the age of five should come to the hospital the following day to weigh their children and to receive a vaccination.
