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Yashraj Sharma

India forcibly sterilised 8m men: One village remembers, 50 years later

Mohammad Deenu with his grandsons at his home in Uttawar, Haryana [Yashraj Sharma/Al Jazeera]

Uttawar, India — When everybody ran, towards the jungles and nearby villages, or dived into a well to hide from government officials, Mohammad Deenu stayed put.

His village, Uttawar, in the Mewat region of northern India’s Haryana state, about 90km (56 miles) from the capital, New Delhi, was surrounded by the police on that cold night in November 1976. Their ask: men of fertile age must assemble in the village ground.

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