Madagascar Coup: A French Play or Another Nail in the Coffin of its Influence?
News:
The leader of the elite unit in the Madagascar army, Colonel Michael Andrianiirina, announced on Tuesday that the army has taken power in this island nation located in Africa, after the National Assembly (Parliament) voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina on charges of dereliction of duty. (Al Jazeera)
Anti-France signs also spread, according to what the French Press Agency team noticed in the capital of Madagascar, and it read: "Get out, France," and "O Rajoelina and Macron, get out." (Al Jazeera)
Comment:
To begin with, Madagascar is located off the coast of East Africa, and it is the fourth largest island in the world, inhabited by approximately 26 million people or more, and its capital is Antananarivo, or "Tana" as the French colonists called it.
In the late nineteenth century, the colonial race around the island of Madagascar and the surrounding islands was at its fiercest between France and Britain. Through Christian missionaries, traders and smugglers, they tried to extend their influence over this strategic region located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Then things went to France, which officially declared its colonization of Madagascar on August 6, 1896.
French colonialism is barbaric in every sense of the word. No country occupied by France is free of massacres and extermination of its people, and its history bears witness to it in killing and extermination. For example, in 1947, its forces committed a massacre against the people of Madagascar, in addition to plundering wealth on a large scale, and exploiting the deteriorating economic conditions of the colonized countries, and the poverty of peoples in a way that exceeds imagination, which led to their rejection and hatred, and facilitated the process of their exit or expulsion from their colonies. This was aided by the international conflict and the significant deterioration of its international position and decline, especially after the war on Ukraine and France's political and economic crises. We have witnessed African countries rejecting France and expelling it in humiliation, and Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are the best evidence. France was forced to board the train of colonial decline as a result of weakness and international conflict.
Regarding the issue of international conflict: America entered the African continent militarily in 2008 through its military force dedicated to Africa (AFRICOM), then began funding operations to train and arm African armies in the French colonies under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Since AFRICOM entered Africa, several coups have taken place in several African countries at the hands of military forces trained specifically by America.
What appears from tracking and reading events and is most likely is that the matter is not a real coup, but rather a pre-emptive move for fear of a real coup. There are indications of this, including:
1- Some media outlets reported that President Rajoelina left the country on a French military plane after agreeing with Macron. The Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper stated: "A military source told Reuters that Rajoelina left the country on a French military plane yesterday, Sunday. French radio said that he had reached an agreement with French President Emmanuel Macron." This means that his departure was a French decision.
2- The existing political establishment is the one that dismissed him, and they are the France group. What indicates this is the parliamentarians' decision to dismiss him by that overwhelming majority.
3- French statements were not as tense about that movement as in Mali, for example, but rather talk of French concern.
In conclusion: It is established and definitive that France has entered the dark tunnel and the path of international decline, and the matter has even extended to the exacerbation of internal political crises, internal division, external crises, and its economic crises, along with Europe, which has shown great incompetence and weakness in the war in Ukraine. Perhaps one day it will taste what it has inflicted on the world, especially since it has a dirty colonial history (and all colonial countries are like that), and it sings about freedom, the French Revolution, and its slogans with lies and deception.
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Central
Hassan Hamdan
