Friday , 26 April 2024
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The case February 07th is the core of a propaganda debate. For being accused and pointed at by former president Zafy, the empowered " putsch makers" retaliated by repeated replies on the public and private TV channels devoted to the HAT, recallig the supposedly true version of a painful event which is far from settled.

Doubts concerning the programmed blood bath of February 07, 2009

February 07th, 2009, 36 people are killed by gun shots in front of the presidential palace in Ambohitsorohitra. Fifty others are reporterd missing. So reads everything that the HAT wants us to remember. Two years after the sacrifice of its militants, the dictating authority grants political recognition to the victims´association, a TGV´s  unofficial branch. The av7 will be represented at the HAT´s convention.   
 
On February 07th, 2009, the mayor of Antananarivo ordered an assault on the presidential palace in order to install his insurgent leadership inside an official building. The urban commune was already a small State in the state. This symbolic putsch´s incentive was simple. The mayor, self proclaimed president, would have had the right to conquer a building belonging to the commune, since his private TV channel was banned. The Prime minister of the place of May 13th, Monja Roindefo, was in charge of leading the operation on the palace.  
 
Police forces ranks welcomed the crowd in Ambohitsorohitra. A delegation made of future members of the HAT negotiated with the guards positionned outside the palace. “They will shoot if we move further, so we can´t”, protested a warm militant TGV. The summon was clear. What has been predicted by Manandafy Rakotonirina came true: “they are straining to make victims in order to stain the ruling regime´s reputation “. Figures who shortly earlier took part in these “negotiations” obviously encouraged the crowd to assault the palace. The bloodbath was inevitable.  
 
An official report noticed that 18 bullets from the presidential palace. Those who fell few meters away from the palace´s gate were in minority. Shots bounced back on the asphalt. Snipers positionned on top of surroundings claimed however the largest toll. Who were they? Which political side did they belong to? The answers are to be delivered by the advantage granted by the action.  
 
The file February 07th has been judged in court. The presidential security´s officers and privates have been declared guilty. Some of them got liftetime prison sentence. The HAT seized the occasion to label President Ravalomanana a criminal unable to receive amnesty. The initial accusation related to the purchase of the presidential plane was far too light.  
 
The very much political case of February 07th definitely failed from unveiling the truth concerning that day´s genuine events. Who were the backers of this deadly shoot out? were these mysterious snipers supporting the presidential guard entirely defending an official building, or the insurgent leadership dying for conquering it with as many unarmed victims as possible?