‘Genocide in Tibet’ - The Interim Newspaper

Blake Kerr in Lhasa, 1987. Photo by John Ackerly.

July 25, 1989

“In the Washington Post (Feb. 26. 1989), Dr. Blake Kerr reported on China’s program of coerced abortion, sterilization and infanticide in Tibet.  Dr. Kerr was in Tibet during the fall 1987 to help organize a U.S.-Tibet medical expedition.

While there he met a woman who said that her baby had been killed by a lethal injection and that she herself had been sterilized against her will at Lhasa’s People’s Hospital. Kerr was haunted by her story…”