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Peace Without Poison

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10 October 2014Ian KhamaPresident of Botswanaop.registry@gov.bw, soefile@gov.bwhttp://www.gov.bw/en/Footer/Contact-us/?FromPageID=1655President KhamaRe: immediate cessation of covert depopulation measuresBotswana was brought into the Global Depopulation Policy in 1975 and its total fertility rate droppedfrom 6.5 children per woman to 2.4 today. This reduction was accomplished with sterilizing vaccines andsterilizing oral contraceptives. Even so the population has increased from 300.000 in 1950 to 2.1 millionas of 2014, a sevenfold increase. Having stopped the population explosion from the front end of life, bysubverting fertility, the depopulation lobby set out to stop it also from the back end of life by increasingmortality and unleashed the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the African population towardsthe end of the 1970s. By the end of the 1980s the lifespan of your people began to rapidly decrease due tothe AIDS epidemic and within 25 years it went from 61 years in 1985 down to 35 years in 2006 and hassince bounced back up to 54 years.To date, more than a quarter of your people are AIDS infected; the second highest infection ratein the world after Swaziland.108 | P a g e

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