Identifier
Created
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07ANTANANARIVO580
2007-06-13 09:29:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Antananarivo
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STUDENTS BURN MADAGASCAR CAMPUS AMPHITHEATRE

Tags:  PGOV KDEM PHUM MA 
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OO RUEHBZ RUEHDU RUEHJO RUEHMR RUEHRN
DE RUEHAN #0580 1640929
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 130929Z JUN 07
FM AMEMBASSY ANTANANARIVO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4956
INFO RUCNSAD/SADC COLLECTIVE
RUEHFR/AMEMBASSY PARIS 0921
UNCLAS ANTANANARIVO 000580 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR AF/E, AF/FO, INR/AA, AND DRL
PARIS FOR D'ELIA
DEPT FOR DS/IP/AF/E - CKOLLMAR
DEPT FOR DS/DSS/ITA - DROTHSTEIN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV KDEM PHUM MA
SUBJECT: STUDENTS BURN MADAGASCAR CAMPUS AMPHITHEATRE

REF: ANTAN 435 AND PREVIOUS

UNCLAS ANTANANARIVO 000580

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR AF/E, AF/FO, INR/AA, AND DRL
PARIS FOR D'ELIA
DEPT FOR DS/IP/AF/E - CKOLLMAR
DEPT FOR DS/DSS/ITA - DROTHSTEIN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV KDEM PHUM MA
SUBJECT: STUDENTS BURN MADAGASCAR CAMPUS AMPHITHEATRE

REF: ANTAN 435 AND PREVIOUS


1. (U) Police contacts report that an unknown number of students
set fire to the amphitheatre on the campus at the University in
Fianarantsoa, in south-central Madagascar, early June 13. The
entire building and an adjoining registrar's office, where many
students' files are stored, burned to the ground. Police suspect
political opposition figures in this anti-Ravalomanana stronghold
put the students up to the arson, but have no suspects yet.


2. (SBU) In recent months there has been unrest at campuses in many
of Madagascar's coastal cities (reftels). Unpaid school fees, lack
of electricity, and political discontent - in that order - have
motivated students to protest, sometimes violently. This arson is a
typical act of Malagasy political violence; a symbolic and
destructive act of protest against authority.

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