COMESA: the military option fuels the debate in Madagascar

The transitional government’s Foreign Affairs Ministry underrates the impact of COMESA’s statements. Ny Hasina Andriamanjato said that no military intervention is to be feared as the regional organization has no armed forces. The SADC or the African Union would have to send pacification forces first to allow COMESA members to contribute to the restoration of constitutional order in Madagascar.

Out of question to make war in spite of the warring foolishness of the military backers of the regime. The international forces are described by the HAT as invaders and some even promise capital punishment to Marc Ravalomanana if he dares to come home. 

The HAT openly denounces the involvement of those regional organisations in what they see as Madagascar inner business. Even the International Contact Group gets regularly criticized in order to make place to an entirely Madagascan led solution. 

They are all about forgetting a Transition Chart, agreeing the Coup and assuming the proudly gained power. Some voices from his own side even urge Andry Rajoelina to draw a simplified political scheme, with the HAT on one side of a line and its opponents on the other. 

“The COMESA is committed to support the efforts consented by the SADC to restore constitutional order in Madagascar with all available options, including the possibility of a military intervention”. The eastern and southern African common markets organization rejects and “condemns in the strongest possible terms the unconstitutional government change” and calls to the return to constitutional order in the country. 

The military solution, a pacification force, has always been cherished by the “defenders of legality”, those who oppose the transitional regime. It would be the lone way to press the HAT to renounce its “stolen mandate” and to agree on a transitional chart as well as an inclusive consensus