This is a film about women who had to a book. About men who could no longer find a wife. And about girls who were kidnapped because of out. And about desperate parents. Almost 200000000 girls and women are missing globally today. How could it come to this and why do we know so little about us. On the top you have a local. Would you please read this please help us. Come she is a province in southern china. And dont know who lives and our parents who are searching for their daughter. 3 year old punk shooting disappeared a month ago without a trace. At 1st nobody believed that something terrible could have occurred in this peaceful village where everyone knows each other. But the search for her has remained fruitless. Wow me we look for her for days. We searched every corner yet day and night the only 5 days and nights he said she was gone. All that remains for the parents are the memories and baby photos from happier times. To their. And she so small here. She was so cute and so adorable. How could this happen. Oh your. Do your nerves a lot of despairing parents he works for a Relief Organization through our china there are already 200000 volunteers searching for missing girls such as passenger ting. Her regularly her kidnapping of little girls are not uncommon in china with the other a sons marriage is expensive because the brides family expect expensive engagement gifts or political for this reason parents have bittle girls kidnapped so they didnt raise the girls together with their son all and when theyve reached adult hood they are married to one another so they are shields up. There is a shortage of millions of women in the worlds most populous country 135 boys alone for every 100 girls in some provinces in china. This is the result of an experiment that started decades ago on the other side of the world. In the usa after world war 2 it was the era of the economic miracle people in the west were doing better than ever before if not for the fear that their prosperity could soon come to an end. A big concern was constantly growing populations changing medical advances especially and developing countries. Affluent americans started a new Movement Together they wanted to curb the large numbers of children worldwide. Most of them were men from well known scientists to the super rich like john d. Rockefeller but. They were people with influence and connections to the highest levels of the american government. That from day sion is still continue to exist today the Ford Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation the Population Council. They triggered a rising tide of fear of a population explosion that soon also spread to other countries and they formed the head of worldwide measures taken to decimate the population of the impoverished this has been examined by Matthew Connelly a historian at Columbia University in new york he has researched in detail the development of this movement from its beginnings to its impact of a. Population council saw its mandate not just to control the rate of population growth but also to address problems in the quality of population so they had a explicit mandate to try to do something about the growth of the fertility rates among people who they thought you know would eventually take over the world if something wasnt done to reduce fertility rates across the board but especially among people who they thought would be poor parents and would have even more poor children. This way of thinking also took hold in american politics in 1966 u. S. President lyndon b. Johnson attached conditions for receiving Development Aid one of them being that recipient countries must reduce their population. It was a time of drought and starvation and india. And. The president spoke on the phone with his secretary of agriculture. But abbott morning got to get all the people of the crowd the bare legged creature out but if you want to. Exhibit a want to know what we. Already have a very badly wake up call the 1st big would be you out. Of nowhere right off a bit of a hot day off to get out because. Youre going to. Be stopped food deliveries until indian president Indira Gandhi bowed to the demands. Accusations were made that the west had imperialist intentions with its population control projects. As apartments of population control was founded at the United Nations in 1969 the un expiate innovative nations Population Fund. Through this stance oblique neutral part of western governments channeled millions into population control in developing countries the major donors to cite the United States sweden Great Britain germany and switzerland of. South korea was among the earliest testing grounds for population control. The country was devastated after the korean war at the same time there was a baby boom with the highest birth rates in the world the United States participated in the reconstruction from the very beginning population control was highly agenda. Is for korean women to grow up in a village 200 kilometers from seoul and still remember the war and the time that followed. Could it be as the government said we should have fewer children and thats why we stuck to it. We women had abortions we thought we were doing the right thing and we did it voluntarily. Western countries donated buses and jeeps that were converted into mobile medical units document show that their task was not Health Promotion the Population Council an American Foundation expressed a clear cut mission to the Korean Ministry of health. These vehicles are given. To help improve Living Standards in korea through a vigorous attack on the problem of excessive population growth. Instead of letting citizens plan their own families family planners made having fewer children a sentence and. They were not interested in fighting poverty but only in preventing the poor from having babies. Were. Most clinics in india went to secluded villages as early as 956 because indians were also supposed to have fewer children. Western family planets flooded the country. One of the pioneers was the american doctor sheldon cigar. He founded an apartment for reproductive medicine and one of the largest state hospitals in new delhi and trained indian medical students. Although early versions of i. E. D. s had fallen into disrepute in the west cigar smuggled them into india in 1964. He declared them as Christmas Decorations at customs and had them inserted into the usual right of women without the knowledge of the government. In a letter he wrote. The present approach is to distribute the ones i have on hand to private gynecologists were also inserting some in monkey utah right my feeling is that in the long run it may be faster to quietly accumulate evidence from the sources before trying to press for wider distribution in government Family Planning clinics i do not want to raise the question with Health Minister dr najat if the answer is likely to be negative because we would very be in a precarious position if we pursue. Human studies at all. It didnt take long for the Indian Government to give the green light the United States agency for International Development even sent nonsterile interview trying to vices to india. Serious complications often arose sometimes with fatal consequences. Despite this the family plan is increase the pressure and the Indian Government cooperators basic quotas for sterilizations an i. E. D. Insertion paying doctors and Health Workers premiums. Poor an education women were the main targets the bait money in exchange for their fertility. So you have the system where people at every level or beget being given money money from the United States from the United Nations from sweden from norway money to agree to start as asian or money to get other people to agree to start as they should even if in some cases that eventually bad rounding them up and trucking them to camps where they were sometimes sterilized under the most appalling circumstances. Sheldon seagal visited one of these camps in 1916. He described it to his aperient i spent sunday at a womens there realization camp and found it fascinating after the surgeon sows up the abdomen the ladies get off the operating table by themselves and walk out of the operating theater. The situation in india spun out of control in 1975 the government of india again they forced 8000000 women and men to undergo sterilization. This dark chapter in Indian History became known as the emergency period. The idea of population control what was so seductive to National Leaders people like Indira Gandhi was the idea that they could achieve maturity in one generation and they could do it with crash programs even if we require taking some risks even if for some people were going to get hurt this was something that was going to make india a modern nation and was going to improve everyones welfare in the long run what they didnt understand was that in many rural societies these children were their parents only source of security in all these right and not only that but in poor society is even children in many cases are able to support themselves and help their parents even from a relatively young age. But there is another reason as to why people in asia have many children and want a son and so they continue to have children until they have been mailed ascendant. The family planets recognise this preference for sons as the key to solving the population problem. People or places like the Population Council or the Ford Foundation they realize that parents and poor societies in many cases prefer to have sons that what they began to think was if only they had some way of helping those parents determine whether the fetus was a female or a bell then they might along with abortion they might have a quicker way of reducing fertility rates. The head of the Population Council laid down a clear course in 1967. Men should Research Efforts leading to improve contraceptive technologies a practical method of determining the sex of an unborn child so that parents could be assured of a son. In the early 1970 s. The time had finally come scientists developed a curry on it will have some playing on c. D. s with this method a child sex could be identified before birth. Abortion was forbidden in almost all developing countries sheldon cigar minus colleagues used their connections to the highest ranks of the u. S. Government and with great success. Henry kissinger was u. S. President gerald ford secretary of state at the time. In the 1974 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d. Population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. No country has reduced its population Growth Without resorting to abortion. While women in the United States were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies American Foundations and politician. What pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. In the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are only present in india today. Once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low Socio Economic standing. Like 19 year olds and gina. My mother and older sister died on 2 consecutive days i was 6 months old at the time. Then my father contracted polio and my grandmother raised me. My father went out to beg and we lived off what he brought back. And told us about. Thats how we 4 kids grow up. Today said ina lives with her brother shanshu his family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. After seguin a vanished shantel sold Everything Travel 2000 kilometers to new delhi and reported her disappearance to the Aid Organisation of Nobel Laureate kyle are such a hearty. That. Some men offered my sister work she declined after that she disappeared. She was able to get hold of her phone and call me when she wasnt being watched she was crying and begged me to get her out of there i went there and saw her. Blood was coming out of her eyes and her face had been cut. Coming from a lower caste shamsul was not able to accomplish anything on his own. The police turned him away several times but after pressure from the Aid Organization they finally went to the village where seguin it was being held. A woman claiming to be sitting as mother in or pulled out a marriage certificate. The shortage of women is particularly extreme in the northern india state of how. Parents desperately seek wives for their sons the village elder eventually explained what had happened to the jena. That a lot of young i thought it was only if we bought we paid 50 or 60000. 00 rupees as a down payment. That i can prove it not that i will be home alone to tell you just give us a go were not leaving without her. Theyre going to its all legal you know that if you die at the mother and i married her in front of 11 witnesses. The truth finally came out when the residents turned the girl over to police the entire village and collected money to buy seguin after a number of branches. She was married to one man and abused as a sex slave by 7 others. This is one of the consequences of the severe lack of women. Such ina is no exception human traffickers come the slums looking for girls. When they disappear hardly anyone goes looking for them the traffic is often equated on a thats. So genius kidnapper still lives in her village. Nobody blames him where she was labeled a whore and was forced to leave home. Girls and women like city not suffer the consequences of population policies introduced and expedited by western family plan as 50 years ago in india. No pregnant woman thought that she could selectively goods that had only boys so this was created by both awkward academic medical profession promoted by 4 polish and a lot of other in jews who tried to get the whole budget. I think they took 30 students per year it would be a fugitive so at about 5 years there was a corpus over a few 100 people who could barely whether its a boy or girl. Gynecologist put a baby was trained at the same hospital where sheldons a gown carried out as research. As a young student baby had a dramatic experience in the delivery room. The 1st night better into the hospital i saw. Street cat in the hospital it might surprise you which is not an unusual Little Common hospital scene stray dogs that go getting go what looks like a flash or something out. Of the liberal so i went inside to ask people what happened so one of them said we hope theyre going to have a place and the feeders delivered so. 67 month old fetus was delivered in just under the bed of the feet of the delivering woman who then i was told it was a project the Research Going on somebody that i think people in it and hope to find daughter was a boy or girl before birth by doing every sentences but if its a girl of course been me about. Prenatal sex determination was the biggest breakthrough in population control. This way girls were aborted on mars and birth rates were reduced to fault she were babies were being born and few were girls that could later their children. And. Daughters are weeded out in china as well one and 5 boys presently born will later be able to find a much mother someone that they have a ties that countless marriage markets for their supplies something. And shanghai there is such a market every sunday in peoples park. Was the answer im here for the 2nd time today im looking for the right girl for my son. So. Many people have come up to me. We exchanged phone numbers and information. About how the mothers will now ask their daughters if theyre interested in my son. And then well talk on the phone. We parents help our children to establish contact lenses thats a teaching assistant. These are mothers who only have one son because they were committed to only have one child this was the chinese strategy for population control. Us president Richard Nixon and secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in beijing in 1982 it was a historic meeting with nazi dont discuss the balance of power and a mutual commitment to world peace. There is no reason for us to be i mean. Neither of us domination over the other. Neither of us big to stretch out our hand. And lead the world. But the americans were worried about the growth of chinese power and the spread of communism and the fact that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable. Nixons visit opened the floodgates for west and found planets. The Chinese Government had a sympathetic the a for them. To. Mass excess paying introduced the one child policy. Millions were trained as lay Health Workers the socalled barefoot doctors. Their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. They have to kill Family Planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a 2nd child they faced draconian punishments. The government used graffiti on building for santa to warn people to turn