Political demonstration: perseverance on one side against the other side’s threat

The movement for the implementation of the Maputo agreements is insisting on organizing a big political demonstration inside the Mahamasina stadium. “We want to explain the Maputo agreements to the population in calm and wisdom” declared Fetison Andrianirina from the Ravalomanana mobility. “Security can only be fully guaranteed and depredations avoided inside Mahamasina “, he justified. 

“We are making the effort to avoid unrest, and to do so that dialog is restored all the way”, pleaded Fetison Andrianirina. “Repressing a Malagasy population longing for the right to express itself must stop”. Then, referring to the UN case, namely the episode in which Andry Rajoelina, supposed to be Madagascar’s representative, has been deprived from speech, he believe that “it is now time to return to the negotiation table”. 

Albert Zafy and Fetison Andrianirina, leaders of the movement for the implementation of the Maputo agreements, paid a visit to those injured at the time of the repression of latest Saturday’s aborted demonstration. A woman received three bullets in the thighs, collateral error attributed to a drunken soldier allegedly not part of the peacekeeping forces, according to the authorities. The other victims suffered respiratory uneasiness, namely due to tear gas.  

The Rajoelina mobility’s justice minister has scolded the police forces following Saturday’s failure. “It is a formal order that I give to the police forces, they have to keep in control of themselves”, warned Christine Razanamahasoa. She addressed an even more threatening warning towards this transitional regime’s objectors. “There are masterminds behind those demonstrators, they are only committed to create unrest and destabilize this transitional regime”, vociferated the minister. 

Christine Razanamahasoa put forward judicial arguments to justify the repression of the demonstration organized by this transitional regime’s objectors. “Creating gatherings and occupying the Mahamasina stadium have both been prohibited, they still try to pull rank on the authorities, it is completely illegal”, she said. The justice ministry is, then, actually addressing a merely hinted threat to politicians from the Ravalomanana and Zafy mobilities. “The leaders of these troubles should not believe themselves immune by being entitled to an amnesty”, she warned.  

The justice minister’s involvement in the repression of the different movements challenging this de facto transitional regional is increasingly important. Christine Razanamahasoa is claiming all the time that there is a State in the country and that law is paramount. She reminded that the authorities have a list of figures to be arrested. In any case, twelve of the seventeen demonstrators arrested in Mahamasina have been retained in custody.