Saturday 12th, April 1947 Marcel Baron makes illegaly stopped the two malagasy deputies present at Antananarivo, Ravoahangy and Rabemananjara. He obtained from them some consents - covered by the french magistrates - and applying the same methods as in Algeria, that we will denounce later.
Wednesday 15th, April 1947 The Franc-Tireur published an interview from Raseta, the malagasy deputy stayed in Paris. He denied all type of implication with the MDRM and gave the proof that o conspiracy organised by the Hova against the Coastals was false. He affirmed that, underlining with a map, most of the Coastals started the rebellion with their own willingness.
Troubles during the house parliament meeting. The communist ministers disagreed with the governement about the policy in Indochina and Madagasikara. Maurice Thorez left the session with his ministers.
The French Communist Party, in L'HumanitŽ, denounced the illegacy of the arrestation of the malagasy deputies.
Deputies have been accused of "Obvious continious offence". Pierre Thibault in France-Soir justified the legacy of the process in his article titled "Need makes law". He showed that the french sovereignty was in danger owning two justify the actions perpetuated to keep the security of french people.
From there, other colonists have been killed and concessions burned. The insurgents organized some "free zones".
Thursday 8th, Mai 1947 France-Soir, - generally hostile to the insurgents -, published an article whom an extract is read in the french parliement by the socialist Lamine Gueye to the fury of his colleagues, give us an idea : "The reprisals are terrifying. Malagasy prisoners have been put in planes and thrown out above rebell villages "as warning bombs". In other places, the rebells were locked in cabines and burnt alive".
From Mars 1947 to Mai 1947 Militants, elected representatives of the MDRM were hunted and tortured or killed.
Friday 6th, June 1947 The thrid deputy, Raseta was arrested upon living the Palais Boubon where the majority of his colleagues had just voted to take away his imunity, on which only the communist and oversea deputies had opposed
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Dissolution of the MDRM at Madagasikara.
At the end of the 1948, General Garbey, the Frenchchief of staff spoke of 86 000 victims, but in 1960, this official figure was 11 342 dead. .
The 29th of Mars 1997, 50th anniversairy : Ouest-France commerated the event : "More revealing than figures is the exposition of the methods used two years after the end of the Nazy barbarism. In Madagasikara, French troops waged a real colonial war of which the French press spoke very little. The French stayed ignorant of the reconquest and the atrocities that were comitted. The coast was particulary heavy. 1900 Malagasy having "collaborated with the French" were killed by the insurgents, as well as 500 soldiers and colonists. The number of independance activists is an other story : combats, massacers, the burning of villages, tortures, famine would have killed 100 000 people.
And the same news paper concluded : "All of this still unknown : One 6th grade book out of two doesn't even allude to the malagasy rebellion in their chapter about decolonisation. However this event shows how the IVth Republik couldn't admit the emencipation of people in his colonial empire, dressed as "French Union". To the first independentist revendication, France alway reacted with brutality. Scared of being weaked through the lose of her colonies she failed wanting keep them too much."
Thursday 30th, October 1997 Jean-Pierre PŽroncel-Hugoz rexplain in his way to Le Monde : "Colonist brutalities, from the fall of the unificating dynasty in 1897 to the terrible antinationalist massacers of 1947, are not forgetten, but the Malagasy have accused the french people".
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