Malagasy Revolt

"The final straw for many was the mooted plan to lease one million acres in the south of the country to the Korean firm Daewoo for intensive farming," reports Robert Koehler — Madagascar in Turmoil. "Malagasy people have deep ties with their land and this was seen by many as a betrayal by their president."

Images from a report linked to by Mr. Koehler — Deadly power struggle lays Madagascar low — show both the recent internationalization of the Korean Hangul alphabet and contemporary evidence of the ancient Malay colonization of the East African island:



The LewRockwell.com Blog's Charles Featherstone, of the man pictured above on the right, seems to get the story wrong, speaking of "an alleged populist mayor attempting to seize power and oust an allegedly corrupt regime" — What if Someone Declared Himself President...