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.
They kinda did during the war on Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos. Just need them do the same on the domestic front this time.
What are you talking about? There absolutely was no mass refusal from the military to follow orders either in Vietnam or domestically when deployed against American protestors and the “silent majority” actually cheered them on.
There was organised opposition to the war on Vietnam in the armed forces, the G.I. movement being one of the more well known faces of it. The documentary Sir! No Sir! covers the basics. There’s a couple of full-length uploads on youtube and the internet archive.
I think they’re talking about “fragging,” or the practice by veteran units of killing green officers who gave orders likely to get people killed. I have no idea how common it was, or if it was even anything more than urban legend.
Fragging in Vietnam did happen. Wikipedia lists at least three incidents, one of which was attempted multiple times.