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Madagascar police fire teargas, bodies found
Mon Mar 2, 2009 12:10pm EST
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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Security forces in Madagascar's capital fired teargas to disperse mobs of looters after an anti-government demonstration in the city center, witnesses said on Monday.
Thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of Antananarivo to support sacked Mayor Andry Rajoelina's call for daily protests aimed at forcing President Marc Ravalomanana to step down.
A power struggle between Rajoelina, a 34-year-old former disc jockey, and Ravalomanana has led to the worst civil unrest in years on the world's fourth largest island,, killing 125 people and devastating its $390 million tourism sector.
Police used teargas on looters, but the rally at the May 13 Plaza -- the capital's main square which has been the epicenter for popular revolt since Madagascar won independence from France in 1972 -- was peaceful.
"About five hours after the protesters had left the 13 May Plaza quietly, the security forces fired teargas canisters at looters outside the old Trading Center and sent them running," local journalist Faniry Ranaivoson said.
Rajoelina has said he will not return to the negotiating table for talks aimed at resolving the political impasse.
He accuses the president of transforming the huge Indian Ocean island into a dictatorship.
"AWFUL SMELL"
On Monday, residents found the decomposing, charred remains of at least five more bodies in a building that burned down at the start of the civil unrest in January.
The macabre find brings the death toll to at least 130 since the political instability began.
"People smelled an awful smell and came to look. We have removed five bodies but there are more inside," said Jean-Michel Rakotomampiani, who helped uncover the corpses in a gutted store.
In a bid to solve the volatile situation, the chair of the African Union (AU) Commission Jean Ping said he would send his Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ramtane Lamamra, within the next few days.
Ping is also expected to visit the island.
The former mayor has channeled popular frustrations over Ravalomanana's failure to tackle poverty while leading an increasingly lavish lifestyle himself.
The self-made millionaire says he will complete his mandate which expires in 2011. Continued...
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