The Chairman of the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) of the Catholic Diocese Jaffna, in a report released on today, called for immediate assistance to victims of coercive population control.
The report, which outlined the complaints from women in three coastal villages who were subjected to birth control implants, urged the Northern Provincial Health Ministry, to remove the implants and assist the victims that were suffering from side-effects.
Noting that a number of the victims had been Catholic, the report said,
“We are having serious doubts about the motive behind these kind of state policies and this may be a method of controlling the population in the North. Besides as Catholics we are strongly opposed to these types of birth control.”
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