Clashes in Madagascar Send 36 In Hospital As
Ravalomanana's Supporters Protest
African Regional News Updates
24 April 2009
Antananarivo - Thirty-six people
were wounded on Thursday as Madagascan security forces
clashed with ousted president Marc Ravalomanana's
supporters who staged second day of protests despite a
demonstration ban.
Head of the emergency unit at the capital city's main
hospital Cornell Rafolohanitrarivo said "we have
received 36 wounded" without giving further details.
Other hospital sources said many of the wounded
suffered bullet wounds and one of them was in a
critical state.
Groups of protesters erected road barriers and battled
the security forces who had earlier blocked them from
gathering at a park in downtown Antananarivo and fired
warning shots and teargas to disperse them.
A security official who spoke to reporters on
condition of anonymity said that one police officer
was badly beaten unconscious and his gun stolen.
Meanwhile a spokesperson of Ravalomanana's TIM party
said four of their lawmakers were arrested during the
protest.
"We don't know the reason (for the arrest). We only
know that they are at the national inquiry
commission," Raharinaivo Andrianatoandro told
reporters.
On Tuesday, the country's transitional administration
of Andry Rajoelina banned public protests a day after
two Ravalomanana supporters were killed as security
forces broke up a rally.
Ravalomanana's supporters have been rallying in the
capital to demand the return of their leader who was
forced to resign last month by his army-backed
opposition rival Rajoelina.
The former president fled to exile in southern Africa.
The series of tense rallies to demand Rajoelina's
departure is reminiscent of the daily protests he
organised at the start of the year to obtain
Ravalomanana's ousting. - Sapa-AFP
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