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Peace Without Poison

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While Dominica has been subjected to covert methods of depopulation by its British overlordssince 1961, the program did not properly kick in until 1974. The UN hides Dominica’sdemographic and statistical data because it is too revealing. Nevertheless, the picture is cleareven from incomplete secondary sources. Dominica has had sub-replacement level fertility since2002.Between 1961 and 1979 the crude birth rate was halved. The man responsible for institutinginvoluntary population control measures in Dominica was Edward Oliver LeBlanc who wasChief Minister of Dominica from 1961 to 1967 and Premier from 1967 to 1974.The only respite from aggressive depopulation measures occurred during the administrations ofPresident Aurelius Marie (1980-1983) and President Clarence Seignoret (1983-1993) and theircounterpart Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, who was in office from 1980 to 1995.All other presidents (Louis Cools-Lartigue, Fred Degazon, Crispin Sorhaindo, Vernon Shaw,Nicholas Liverpool, Eliud Williams, and incumbent Charles Savarin) and prime ministers223 | P a g e

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