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1 | Togo: Fragile Truce Emerges After Five Weeks of Student Protests | Togo: Fiatoana Kely Taorian'ny Dimy Herinandro Nisian'ny Hetsi-panoheran'ny Mpianatra |
2 | This post is part of our special coverage Global Development 2011. West African country Togo's students' struggle for better education conditions is now in its fifth week and despite a recent truce, tensions remains high in the capital Lomé. | Ny tolon'ireo mpianatra avy any Togo, firenena Afrikana Tandrefana, ny mba hanatsaràna ny fepetram-panabeazana dia efa nahatratra ny herinandro faha-diminy ary na eo aza ny fitsaharana kely tato ho ato, mbola avo ny fihenjanana any Lomé renivohitra. |
3 | A wind of appeasement seemed to blow on the demonstrations organized by the Mouvement pour l'Épanouissement des Étudiants Togolais - MEET (Movement for the Fulfillment of Togolese Students), when students managed to obtain from authorities the reinstatement [fr] of the president of their association on June 30. | Toa nisy rivo-pahatoniana nitsoka tamin'ireo fihetsiketsehana nokarakarain'ny Mouvement pour l'Épanouissement des Étudiants Togolais - MEET (Hetsika ho amin'ny Fivelaran'ireo Mpianatra Togoley), rehefa nahavita nahazo tamin'ny manampahefana ny famerenana [fr] ny filohan'ny fikambanan'izy ireo ny mpianatra tamin' ny 30 Jona. |
4 | Abou Seidou, a student of the University of Lomé, had been previously expelled for allegedly causing troubles on the campus. | Abou Seidou, mpianatra eny amin'ny Anjerimanontolon'i Lomé, voaroaka noho ny fiampangàna azy ho nanakorontanany toeram-ponenan'ny mpianatra. |
5 | This reinstatement was expected to open the way to negotiations. | Inoana fa manokatra ny làlana any amin'ny fifampiraharahana io famerenana azy io. |
6 | Despite this first symbolic victory however, and despite the subsequent call from MEET to not demonstrate on Friday July 1, 2011, a fringe of the student population decided to maintain the pressure on the government and went to protest. | Na eo aza anefa ity fandresena voalohany tsy dia nisongadina ity, sy ny antson'ny MEET tao aorian'io mba tsy hanao fihetsiketsehana ny Zoma 1 Jolay 2011, nisy mpianatra vitsivitsy tamin'izy ireo nanapa-kevitra ny hitazona ny tsindry atao amin'ny governemanta ary nandeha nanao hetsi-panoherana. |
7 | The July 1, 2011 demonstration in Lomé, Togo. | Ny fihetsiketsehana tao Lomé, Togo ny 1 Jolay 2011. |
8 | Image by Morgan Coolpot Bello on Facebook. | Sarin'i Morgan Coolpot ao amin'ny Facebook. |
9 | Charles Le Bon, a local blogger [fr], describes in a post written on the following day the events of the July 1, 2011, demonstration. | Charles Le Bon, mpitoraka bilaogy [fr] iray avy ao an-toerana, milaza amin'ny ambangovangony ao anatinà lahatsoratra ireo zava-nitranga ny 1 Jolay 2011, fihetsiketsehana. |
10 | According to him: | Araka ny voalazany: |
11 | Fearing that this day would be a Black Friday, considering the support from almost all the political parties, civil society and human rights defense organisations, the government went back on its decision to expel the president of MEET for six years. | Noho ny fahatahorana ny mety hahatonga ity andro ity ho Zoma Mainty, noho ny fanohanan'ny ankamaroan'ireo vondrona politika, ny fiaraha-monina sivily sy ireo fikambanana miaro ny zon'olombelona, niverina tamin'ny fanapahan-keviny ny handroaka ny filohan'ny MEET enin-taona ny governemanta. |
12 | A violent scene showing security forces beating up a student was filmed on July 1 and posted on YouTube on July 4, by Sylvio Combey, a Togolese journalist. | Nisy lahatsary mampiseho mpitandro filaminana midaroka mpianatra azo tamin'ny 1 Jolay ary navoaka tao amin'ny YouTube ny 4 Jolay, an'i Sylvio Combey, mpanao gazety Togoley. |
13 | Combey claims that he also was beaten up by public forces while shooting the video. | Milaza i Combey fa izy koa dia voadarok'ireo mpitandro filaminana raha naka io lahatsary io. |
14 | At 0:25 minutes you can hear a policeman, asking him in French to hand over his camera, which the journalist refuses to do, saying “Why, because I am working?”: | Eo amin'ny 0:25 minitra dia maheno mpitandro filaminana iray ianao, mangataka azy amin'ny teny Frantsay ny hampirimany ny kamerany, izay tsy neken'ilay mpanao gazety, miteny “Maninona, satria ve aho miasa?”: |
15 | Meanwhile, Togolese students still have not won out their main demands for better education conditions, among them an increase in and the payment of their grants. | Mandritra izany, mbola tsy nahazo ny valin'ny tena fangatahany mikasika ny fanatsarana ny fepetram-panabeazana ireo mpianatra Togoley, ao anatin'izany ny fampiakarana sy fandoavana ny vatsim-pianaran'izy ireo. |