The double situation of the work of historians on the 1947 rebel in Madagascar | EUROtoday

The gesture was anticipated: Emmanuel Macron introduced, on Thursday, April 24, throughout his journey to Antananarivo, the creation of a combined fee of French and Malagasy historians to make clear the shadow zones of the repression of the 1947 rebel in Madagascar.

If the choice doesn’t totally fulfill those that, like Professor Jeannot Rasoloarison (University of Antananarivo), ask that each one insurrectional actions for the reason that starting of colonization be revisited in 1897, these occasions, nevertheless, have a particular place within the historical past of anti -colonial battle and by the uncooked reminiscences that they nonetheless go away in Malagasy society.

“Until now, when I am told 1947, my stomach is tied. Above all, I have the vision of the peasants who have risen and who have been abandoned and almost decimated, with the vague impression that this part of the story has never been told ”tells the novelist Michèle Rakotoson, born a year after the “Events” and whose father and uncle were tortured. Testimonies that remain fixed in his memory.

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