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Peace Without Poison

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Azerbaijan suppresses human fertility since 1962 when it was a Soviet republic. From 1980 untilindependence from the Soviet Union in 1991 the program of covert depopulation was eased upby the Soviet leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and finallyMikhail Gorbachev only to be accelerated and intensified as soon as Azerbaijan becameindependent.Judging by the rapid transition of power from one administration to another in the early days ofindependent Azerbaijan, it is safe to assume that the depopulation measures were firstimplemented by the ministry of health with little or no input from the executive.The only three politicians who have been in office long enough not to be able to pretend that theydid not know what is happening are the current prime minister, Artur Rasizade, and the currentpresident, Ilham Aliyev, as well as his father and former president Heydar Aliyev. These threekey figures are certainly deeply implicated in the poisoning of their people and bear the brunt of57 | P a g e

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