The oldest discrimination in the world

THERE is little new about gendercide, other than the 21st century ability to provide a scientific-sounding label, and modern technology’s ability to replace routine killings of baby girls with gender-specific abortions.

Generally, this crime is held at a safe distance from our consciousness, pigeon-holed in far-off China, where it is seen as a natural outcome of the country’s one-child policy.

And when it happens elsewhere, such as India, it is ascribed to ignorance and superstition.