The EMMO REG squad violates the law by penetrating the university’s campus in order to deal a blow to the students’ uprising

On October, 30th and 31st, 2012, violent clashes between students and police forces illustrated the resumption of the very same and usual claims in the transitional era. Students want their allowances, basically supposed to be paid by the beginning of the year, as well as their scholarships. They have to claim them loud, for the Superior Education ministry has, of course, run out of cash.

The Finance ministry blames the Superior Education ministry

… more precisely the Superior Education ministry’s man in charge, Etienne Razafindehibe. The Finance ministry argues that scholarships would have been ready, and points at the Superior Education department for its alleged mismanagement. Just to make a long story short, delivering money anew is completely off the point for the HAT’s chancellor of the checker.

The Finance ministry recalled besides that it has to stick to the general budget’s standards, and suggested a reshuffle to the Superior Education department, in order to repay its students. The issue is about to be settled in the run of a Cabinet meeting. The explanation did not prove to be as effective as expected though. “We won’t stop, we won’t let it down as long as the money does not reach the university’s facilities!” explained one of the striking students’ spokesmen. “We have too long enough been fooled by foul promises! It’s over now!” he added.

The police forces, most of them being state policemen, repeatedly penetrated the University of Antananarivo with anti-riot arsenal. Gunshots and tear gas opened the assault and the manhunt. The outcome? A couple of preys captured on Wednesday and charged for having thrown stones at police forces’ officers; one student wounded at the head. The demonstration’s purposes on that day were, of course, the recovery of money, but also the release of 13 students captured by the police forces on the earlier day. In the run of the first round of clashes inside the university of Ankatso, 5 victims were wounded, a couple of them belonging to the police forces