By: Oldschool Boy

Oldschool Boy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:11:09 +0000

Back at the beginning of 1990s, a Kazakh-native doctorate exchange student from China told me about usual practice of many Kazakh families in Xinjiang to keep Uighur kids (usually girls) as long term servants and nannies. In China, Han people were allowed only one child, and national minorities – two. Children born in excess, mainly because of poor contraception, again usually girls in, in this case, Uighur families, were sold to other people to be kept as servants or nannies. These unfortunate human beings stayed with their host families, who provided them with shelter, food and clothes, and most of the time, looked at the host families’ babies, animals, and did some other petty household work. These children didn’t have any documents, couldn’t get education, and were destined for their entire life to work as some sort of medieval servants. I do not know if it still the same or changed.

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By: Oldschool Boy