On 24 March 1971, students at the College of Medicine in Antananarivo started a protest to express popular rejection of the policies and repression of president Tsiranana's neo-colonial administration [REF].
On 24 April 1972, secondary school students in the capital of Antananarivo protested in solidarity with the city's medical university students to support revisions of the colonial era curriculum and the dismissal of teachers from France.