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Article: Spirit of forgiveness: Malagasy people mark uprising.
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- New Internationalist
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- April 1, 1997
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THIS year is the fiftieth anniversary of an uprising in Madagascar in which 100,000 people died. There is little record of these events in the history books of the North, but the Malagasy people remember well enough. With the help of the charity Azafady they are planting one tree for each of the dead. An album, Son Egal by the Malagasy band Tarika, is being released to promote reconciliation with the Senegalese people whose troops were pitted by the French against the Malagasy.
The story that culminated in the uprising of 1947 began many years earlier with a colonial deal. In 1890 France recognized British claims to Zanzibar in return for British recognition of ...