Rotaka

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Protesters in Antananarivo burned the Hotel de Ville city hall in 1972.

The rotaka was a series of farmer and student protests in Madagascar between April 1971 and May 1972 that led to the collapse of the First Republic of Madagascar under President Philibert Tsiranana.

The student and farmer protest movement gained momentum across the country beginning in April 1971.[1] These protests expressed popular rejection of the policies and repression of president Tsiranana's neo-colonial administration.[2] On 24 April 1972, secondary school students in the capital of Antananarivo protested in solidarity with the city's medical university students to support revisions of the colonial era curriculum and the dismissal of teachers from France. Madagascar's most popular musical group, Mahaleo, was formed by high school students who performed at their school's protests in Antsirabe.[3]

On 13 May, security forces shot student protesters in Antananarivo. Within days, Tsiranana announced his resignation and a transitional government was put in place under General Gabriel Ramanantsoa.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Mahaleo" (in French). Laterit Productions. 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2013. 
  2. ↑ Lavaine, Bertrand (22 February 2012). "Mahaleo, 40 ans d'histoire(s) de Madagascar: Un livre témoignage à valeur patrimoniale". Radio France International (in French). Retrieved 23 July 2013. 
  3. ↑ Pigeaud 2010, pp. 28-30.
  4. ↑ Pigeaud 2010, pp. 37-38.

References

  • Pigeaud, Fanny (2010). Mahaleo, 40 ans d'histoire(s) de Madagascar (in French). Laterit éditions. ISBN 978-2-919702-01-5. 
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