text:  and sometimes they went into, say, orphanages and things like that. All these people were sterilized. Another 8,000 actually were sterilized, it's thought, because they were forced into making this decision. So we're looking at about 25,000 people. A couple of years ago, someone brought a case against the government because of this. The government apologized, offered some compensation, but a lot of people thought this wasn't enough, and they pursued more compensation through the courts.