Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined thousands of protestors in the capital Saturday, AFP reporters said, after announcing they would refuse any orders to shoot demonstrators.

Fresh youth-led demonstrations in Antananarivo drew large crowds in one of the biggest gatherings since a protest movement erupted on the Indian Ocean island on September 25.

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      The article says it’s a “youth-led movement that was sparked by anger over power and water shortages and evolved into a broader anti-government movement.” Factions of the military have joined the protesters. The current president was appointed after the last military coup in 2009.

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      The UN has said that at least 22 people were killed in the first days of the protests that started on 25 September at the call of a youth-led movement called “Gen Z”.

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          Gotta get some more green on that map! I’m thinking fascist-occupied Italy would be a great place to start, given what happened there almost exactly a century ago…

          And the US and Russia, of course, but those are both almost too obvious to be worth mentioning and too entrenched to happen anywhere near as soon as we’d like…