Madagascar: The situation is still bubbling

By on May 21, 2010
A shooting burst on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 in Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar. Elements of the loyal forces to the president, Andry Rajoelina, approached a gendarmerie compound, and then the gendarmes – Who had previously engaged a movement of protest against their hierarchy, took place around the barracks being afraid of an attack of the loyal forces supporters.

It is said that the situation is a little quieter, even if several military trucks are always in position near the gendarmerie compound and still some sporadic shootings are regularly heard. The shooting made five badly wounded persons, and a dead man.
For the moment the police forces are in a “Stand By” situation, while negotiations are taken by telephone. The Prime Minister and the Army chief of staff would be negotiating with the gendarmes, trenched in their camp and in the surrounding hill.
In any case, these confrontations have obviously a political connotation, because the movement of the clerics who wanted to organise a forbidden religious worship (cult), as well as the gendarmes, do not hide their opposition to the Andry Rajoelina’s regime.

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