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Peace Without Poison

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The man responsible for introducing population control measures in Nepal is Birendra BirBikram Shah, King of Nepal from 1972 until 2001. During his reign the total fertility ratedropped from 6 to 4 children per woman even though the contraceptive prevalence rate wasbelow 20% until 1990 and below 30% until 2000.Upon murdering his own father, Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev became King of Nepal andreigned until he was deposed in 2008. He continued to involuntarily sterilize his people intosterility and during his reign the total fertility rate dropped from 4 to 3 children per woman.Once Nepal became a democracy in 2008 the poisoning program was taken over by PresidentRam Baran Yadav. Since then the total fertility rate has decreased from 3 to 2.3 children perwoman.575 | P a g e

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