[utunbu]

> birth control

If you're referring to the now-obsolete one-child policy, IIRC, they do this to all ethnicity. The ethnic minority usually got more slack when the government enforced this policy.

> family separation

Mind elaborate a bit?

[neverywhere]

I was referring to this: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we...

[thaumasiotes]

> The ethnic minority usually got more slack when the government enforced this policy.

More importantly, the policy officially allowed minorities to have two children, which is very much the opposite of driving down minority numbers relative to Han numbers.

There is a popular poem reflecting the Han's view of what their government thinks of them:

一等外人，二等官

三等少民，四等汉

[uniqueuid]

He's referring to the forced/coerced use of IUDs, which are technically birth control.

[drocer88]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713 : "China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population, report says".

https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-international-news-we... : China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization

[ChemSpider]

Not OP, but China does many shady things in the Uighur region. For example:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/ch...