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Peace Without Poison

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3 December 2014Moncef Marzouki, President of Tunisiahttp://www.tunisie.gov.tn/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=408msport@ministeres.tn, minculture.info@email.ati.tn, msp@ministeres.tnmar@ministeres.tn , pcontenu@finances.gov.tn, mag@ministeres.tn ,mind@ministeres.tn, brc@mehat.gov.tn, boc@tourisme.gov.tnMehdi Jomaa, Prime Minister of Tunisiaboc@pm.gov.tn, mae@ministeres.tn, defnat@defense.tnmsbenammar@gmail.com, mju@ministeres.tn, mes@mes.rnu.tnmasste@rnas.gov.tn, masste@rnas.gov.tn, med@ministeres.tnPresident Marzouki and Prime Minister Jomaa,Re: Immediate cessation of covert depopulation measuresTunisia joined the Global Depopulation Policy in 1966 and the total fertility rate decreased from7 children per woman to just 2 and has been at replacement level since the year 2000.The Tunisian government began interfering with the people’s fertility in June 1966, when anofficial family planning program was inaugurated and 39 family planning centers were opened inhospitals and clinics as well as several mobile units began pushing contraceptives (mostly IUDs)in each of the thirteen provinces. But its population control efforts did not really take offnationwide until 1970. What is noteworthy about this earliest effort, however, is that of the 10%downturn in births achieved by 1968 only one-third can be attributed to the program itself.Since the program of family planningintroduced in 1966 was funded and carriedout by personnel supplied by the FordFoundation and the Population Council onecan be certain that the distribution ofcontraceptives served merely as a front forcovert methods of depopulation, thus eitherchemical sterilization via fluoride tablets orinvoluntary surgical sterilizations.Tunisia’s population pyramid confirms thatthe people’s fertility has been interferedwith since the late 1960s.867 | P a g e

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