Peace Without Poison

30 November 2014Trương Tấn Sang, President of Vietnamhttp://www.chinhphu.vn/portal/page/portal/English/contactNguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Vietnamttll.mfa@mofa.gov.vn, byt@moh.gov.vnNguyễn Phú Trọng, Communist Party General Secretaryhttps://www.facebook.com/nguyenphutrongvnPresident Sang, Prime Minister Dũng and General Secretary Trọng,Re: immediate cessation of covert depopulation measuresVietnam joined the Global Depopulation Policy in 1977, the same year it became a UN memberstate, and its total fertility rate went from 7 children per woman down to 2. The fact thatVietnam reached replacement level fertility since 2005 is the primary reason for the country’simproved economic situation and higher standard of living.While the first population control program began even earlier, in 1961, in North Vietnam, withthe formation of the Population and Birth Control Unit within the Ministry of Health (MOH),which pursued a two-to-three child policy, it was ineffective until the country’s reunification in1975, as evidenced by the high fertility rate of 6.1 when the Vietnam War ended in 1975.The National Committee for Population and Family Planning (NCPFP) 1984-2002, gave riseto the first Decree on birth control in 1988, when the country’s total fertility rate had declined to4.1 children per woman, and sought to limit family size to replacement level fertility through latemarriage, delayed childbearing until age 22, and a three to five year spacing between the first andsecond child. It was at this time that covert, coerced and involuntary sterilization schemesbegan.A one-to-two child policy was promulgated in 1993 when the Communist Party issuedResolution 4 on Population and Family Planning and made population control an integral partof the nation’s socio-economic development objectives. This was followed by the NationalStrategy on Population and Family Planning (NSPFP) 1993-2000, which set as its primaryobjective reducing the total fertility rate to 2.9 by the year 2000. To achieve this goal, the947 | P a g e