NEW DELHI — India's traditional preference for baby boys has resulted in the extermination of generations of females with thousands of fetuses or new born babies being killed daily for no apparent reason rather than being girls.
"One of the most disturbing revelations came from a midwife who said she had killed hundreds of newborns," journalist Gita Aravamudan told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview wired Friday, July 20.
"She had lost count."
Aravamudan has written a book, "Disappearing Daughters", about the gruesome practice in the Hindu-majority country, including stories of women forced to endure successive pregnancies to produce male children and of others forced to have up to four abortions in five years.
"Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female feticide was more like a Holocaust," Aravamudan writes.
"A whole gender is getting exterminated. It is a silent and smoothly executed crime which leaves no waves in its wake."
In the past, India's unwanted baby girls have been drowned in milk, burned alive in sealed mud pots or fed milk laced with poisonous seeds.
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NEW DELHI — India's traditional preference for baby boys has resulted in the extermination of generations of females with thousands of fetuses or new born babies being killed daily for no apparent reason rather than being girls.
"One of the most disturbing revelations came from a midwife who said she had killed hundreds of newborns," journalist Gita Aravamudan told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview wired Friday, July 20.
"She had lost count."
Aravamudan has written a book, "Disappearing Daughters", about the gruesome practice in the Hindu-majority country, including stories of women forced to endure successive pregnancies to produce male children and of others forced to have up to four abortions in five years.
"Female infanticide is akin to serial killing. But female feticide was more like a Holocaust," Aravamudan writes.
"A whole gender is getting exterminated. It is a silent and smoothly executed crime which leaves no waves in its wake."
In the past, India's unwanted baby girls have been drowned in milk, burned alive in sealed mud pots or fed milk laced with poisonous seeds.
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