Gypsy Accusation Towards Czechs’ and Slovaks’ Forced Sterilisations

80 ethnic Roma women are claiming that they were conned into sterilisation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. While some were forced, others were offered financial incentives to get sterilised in hopes of reducing the fertile Roma population.

One woman, Elena Gorolova (37) explained how she joked with the doctor saying they can keep her baby boy at hospital because she wanted a baby girl and how he replied that she better take it because she has been sterilised at the age of 21.

While it is believed that the practice ended in 1990 after the end of communist Czechoslovakia, human rights groups say it happened as recent as 2003. According to the Czech embassy in London, sterilisation was not targeted at specific ethnic groups.


Source: news.bbc.co.uk