After Installing a Military Government, Madagascar’s Gen Z was Betrayed

Madagascar’s Gen Z activists say they feel deceived by a new government they accuse of using the same old strategies, a year after starting demonstrations that drove the president from office. After weeks of anti-government protests, the teenage demonstrators were ecstatic when troops from the Capsat military unit joined them last October.

On October 17, Capsat commander Colonel Michael Randrianirina was sworn in as interim leader when President Andry Rajoelina fled the island in the Indian Ocean. It put an end to disturbances that resulted in a government crackdown and at least 22 fatalities.Herizo Andriamanantena, the leader of the movement that staged its first demonstration on September 25 in response to ongoing power and water shortages, remembered, “It was really both joy and relief.”

However, the 30-year-old, an agricultural engineer, told AFP that there were only “little changes here and there” after that. The new authorities launched their own crackdown after his group organised a march in April of this year to express disapproval of the sluggish progress of promised reforms. Five other campaigners and Herizo, who was only identified by his first name on social media, were imprisoned.

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