Miarahaba,
Arak'io vaovao farany eo ambany io dia mbola mitohy hatrany ny fanangonana mercenaires ataon-dRa8 any Afrika atsimo.
Noho izany dia tena misy ilana azy tokoa ny avion de reconnaissance CESSNA avy @ LaFrantsa, hitazanana ny fahatongan'ireo mpanani-bohitra ho entin-dRa8 ireo. Araka ny hita @ twitter-n'ny sasany koa dia efa vonona ny Antsatsa, izay sambo vao vita tao Antsiranana ary afaka manao reconnaissance tsara ihany koa.
Ary farany dia efa fantatry ny maro ny fividianana helicopter 24 avy @ Belge izay ahafahana mitantitra haingana ny troupe, satria dia atao fiomehezana eny @ Magro mihitsy ny fahanteran'ny fitaovan'ny miaramila malagasy (nefa dia mba samy gasy izao).
South African mercenaries have been recruited to reinstate deposed Malagasy president Marc Ravalomanana, security-sector sources have told the Mail & Guardian. Ravalomanana has been based at a luxury Sandton hotel since fleeing Madagascar in March. Central to the efforts allegedly are two security operatives who participated in the failed Equatorial Guinea coup attempt five years ago. Regional bodies have condemned Ravalomanana's unconstitutional ouster and considered military action, but deferred to the Southern African Development Community. The latter, chaired by President Jacob Zuma, said two weeks ago that it favoured negotiations and called on all parties to "desist from any violent solutions". Three sources connected to the local security sector, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the M&G of the alleged mercenary effort. The M&G also obtained a weapons procurement list allegedly circulated on behalf of the Ravalomanana camp. Information about the alleged recruitment echoes charges by the new Malagasy regime, headed by former disc jockey and Antananarivo mayor Andry Rajoelina. Last week Rajoelina was quoted as saying: "There are people who are thirsty for power; there are people who are even willing to come back to power with mercenaries. Everyone is talking about it. And that is what Mr Ravalomanana is busy doing." Already before Rajoelina's accession to power, his camp made accusations about South African mercenary support for Ravalomanana. The M&G has confirmed the presence of three South African "instructors" in Madagascar at the time.  CONTINUES BELOW On April 1, days after Ravalomanana's departure, police reportedly searched the compound of QMM, a Rio Tinto-Malagasy joint venture that mines mineral sands, for mercenaries and weapons caches from South Africa. There were no reports of an actual find. The pro-Rajoelina press last month made detailed allegations about a mercenary force, supposedly numbering several hundred, being recruited under contract to Ravalomanana by a United States-based private military company and involving South Africans. Malagasy security forces went on high alert before the country's Independence Day celebrations last Friday, when a mercenary strike was feared. The claims include:
When the Malagasy media outed a group of South African "mercenaries" serving then-president Ravalomanana, they were marked men. On March 12, with Ravalomanana's grip on power slipping, newspaper La Verité proclaimed: "The presence of foreign mercenaries on Malagasy soil is no longer false rumours circulated by the local press. They were at the Place du 13 Mai last Wednesday, March 4, giving orders to Malagasy officers." The newspaper named five South Africans who had entered Madagascar as guests of Ravalomanana's presidency. The newspaper speculated that this constituted "high treason" on the president's part. The South African embassy wrote to La Verité in response, defending two of the men, "diplomat" Mmatlou Moja and helicopter pilot Mathew Beresford-Carter, pointing out that the former was part of an official South African fact-finding mission and the latter was employed by a private company on long-term contract to the Malagasy government. It said it had no knowledge of the remaining three men. The M&G has established that Moja, the "diplomat", is in fact employed by the South African Secret Service, which would have had reason to participate in a fact-finding mission. Beresford-Carter told the M&G this week: "I was there purely to be a pilot for the president to fly him around … As far as I'm concerned I was never a mercenary." He said that his helicopter was shot at when he was asked to fly an Israeli and a Russian who inspected incidents of unrest. After he was named in the media, he had to go into hiding in the South African embassy. He was "smuggled out" three weeks later, after Ravalomanana was toppled. The M&G tracked down two of the other men named. Charles Skog, who recruits security operatives and other professionals to work internationally, confirmed taking a team of two to Madagascar, on what would have been a "big contract" to help in riot control and instruct the local military in handling such situations. He left for South Africa after a week, after which things went "haywire" and he had to get his colleagues out. He denied he was a mercenary. "I have absolutely no interest in red zones." Skog's colleague, Gerhard de Klerk, told the M&G that after being "branded" a mercenary, he and his remaining colleague, Werner Erasmus, were advised by Ravalomanana's government to "get out as a faction of the military was after us". De Klerk described attempting to reinforce protection at Ravalomanana's palace in Antananarivo and private estate south of the capital and to instruct an "unreceptive" military in riot techniques. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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