Or is the Government of Transition paying you to write this bunch of lies as the Daewoo thing?

I suggest you that before writing one article you consult many media. There is no freedom of speech there and news are filtered. EU and all African organizations and even the USA know that in Madagascar the situation is abnormal.

This source could help you
http://www.topix.com/world/madagascar

There are more visual documents about this new regime and repression that have not reached international media because images are very crude and many backed Rajoelina against Daewoo but nobody explains the continuation. Due to shame of having backed a DJ dictator?

The one of 2002, a very peaceful movement backed by mainstream Malagasy for real democracy after three decades of dictatorship by Ratsiraka.

The one of 2009 that has been instigated by a minority and very violent using military by Rajoelina.

I would like the truth being disclosed as in Honduras or Iran. Regarding Mauritania it happens the same as Madagascar…

FYI the park was looted when the Transitional Government started and gangs of military people looted it since April 2009 with guardians that could not do anything but denounced the situation. That area is remote but the news reached the capital provoking shock as natural parks were being preserved for the first time by the government supervised by different international organizations.

One online Malagasy information site informed about this terrible situation. It is called TopMada but it since June it has been mysteriously closed by this new Rajoelina dictatorship power (worst than Ratsiraka dictatorship in three decades). Possibly by death threats and imprisonments of people against the coup d’etat as it is the hobby of Rajoelina group and you can read it in French their note about closure.
The country atmosphere is not normal at all with SS techniques.

If it has been recently closed is that this new government de facto has cut all trees of tropical wood they could and sold it for illegal exportation. They need easy money because all the international aids they wanted cannot be misused by them.

Madagascar is worse than ever. Just read all types of journals to get your own opinion (there are some like new Kim Il Sungs of the Indian Ocean telling big lies about the grandiose HAT movement and even lately obliging primary school kids to write official essay about their “great deeds” in official exam http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1492513.php/Madagascar_pupils_asked_to_spout_governments_development_agenda_ destroying Madagascar and all the traditional values… ).

Please follow also twitters and bloggers from Madagascar that are prosecuted and write in English so they have difficulties to follow.

There is violence with their new FIS SS Malagasy Rajoelina police, the freedom of demonstrate peacefully does not exist, many people are unemployed, prices of food soar because they burnt all the businesses which produced local products that are not ruled by their friends that were not successful, looting is normal- their new cars do not belong to them and even the old legal PM Manandafy is imprisoned after being kidnapped in front of media.

Even Ravalomanana has been accused as corrupted (I was not pro),it has been the first president that developed Madagascar and for the first time many Malagasy felt changes for better as others only thought about being richer and never developed anything.

I feel that there has been a complot in Madagascar for boycotting the GDP – real growth rate of 7% (2008 est.) CIA information https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ma.html

(excepting China and Madagascar most countries in the world had minus growth rate of economy). In the past Madagascar had only 0.1% growth rate now with the chaos minus.

Curiously enough, Madagascar became one of the first country benefitting the Millenium challenge with Ravalomanana http://www.mcc.gov/

Read the criteria to get it. Transparency and democracy were primordial. We have lost a big opportunity to develop and things were going better than ever with decades of stagnation and total poverty.

Furthermore, the petrol that has been discovered and the president did not give the rule to some foreign countries that have backed this mad young man who is destroying all signs of development.

As a journalist it is better to get further information because as a Malagasy citizen we do not feel at all peace but regression that even Ratsiraka seemed to have done it better. We had famine by his mad North Korean policy but his close followers were enriching controlling all the commerce of exportation of this very rich island.

(FYI the father of Rajoelina was Ratsiraka’s accountant and most military backed the former dictator because Ratsiraka was a colonel who took power by a coup d’etat in the 70s)

Here you have the links about your the SAVA problem and ecological threats that only started with Rajoelina conflict and his coup d’etat.

http://www.topmada.com/2009/04/urgent-le-pillage-de-bois-de-rose-se-poursuit-et-sagrave-dans-la-sava/

http://rakotomalala.blogspot.com/2009/04/eyewitness-account-of-pillage-of.html

I am sorry for writing this post but Madagascar was a very peaceful country. But as Afro-Asian Indonesian character and values people did not protest about the lies and dictatorship of Ratsiraka until 2002. Elections were tricked and during 5 months people protested very peaceful against Ratsiraka.

This time since the end of 2008 one violent group wanted us to go against the legal government of Ravalomanana and “Daewoo project” that was not implemented. They had not the national support (but the one of some media with the lie of Daewoo they filtered globally) they expected and they started to used poor kids as soldiers, they freed convicts and give money to low military to revolt against high grades being many drugged them to provoke violence like Rwanda and a genocide against the ones they saw as rivals in export Malagasy business and companies.

I am deeply sad that international media are not tackling this severe issue Malagasy with Malagasy tormented since December 2008 but under new military junta regime since April. Many Malagasy are exhausted and psychologically destroyed but we will fight for expressing the truth, even in Madagascar there is high censorship and people are totally threatened to death.

I am sorry to post all this but I would like that worldwide people would know the truth.

Apart from Honduras and Mauritania, in Madagascar there is a new dictatorship after a coup d’etat.

I have not direct knowledge of the conflict. But I do have historical knowledge of comparable coups and over-throws, and my instincts tell me that there are many sides to this conflict, and many random factors will influence it outcome. But this will take years to achieve.

I have only sincere wishes for a peaceful, sane resolution.

I will concede your point about violence on the island, as I am not there. However, I stand by my other statements in the article (partly for the same reasons, note: Rajoelina did have the foresight to close the national park once looting was discovered; this, in the midst of a coup, is no small thing).

This is most like a classic right vs left dialectic, or perhaps, sadly, another example of the succession from corruption and entrenched interest to over-throw, anarchy (temporary) and yes, more corruption. The new leadership, however bad, is new. The old leadership, in its deals with foreign companies, initiated (in my reading of things) the popular protest, which were met with the typical, politically oppressive tactic: violence…and this begets more violence as sides polarize.

Most likely, both governments were/are woefully lacking on differing matters. The purpose of the article was to high-light the endangerment to wildlife and conservation science when there is political instability in the making–and this “making” happens over a long term. Coups may happen suddenly, but the seeds of uprising are sown long before.

I hope that the good people of Madagascar can come together, restore stability, implement sustainable agricultural practices, institute and ramp-up conservation efforts, and re-inaugurate the eco-tourism trade…also: it is my hope that all parties there realize the tremendous biological “treasure” that surrounds them, and that they will seek always to preserve it for future generations.