Just Beyond Reason

V. February 13, 1975:
Colonel Ratsimandrava

Colonel Ratsimandrava
for six days
Head of Government
Head of State
machine gunned
in the heart

Colonel Ratsimandrava
who in ¹72
Head of Gendarmes
refused order
to fire into crowds

Colonel Ratsimandrava
murdered by Jimbo
and other FRS
who in ¹72
did fire did kill
forty students

Colonel Ratsimandrava
who left six children
eight million Malagasy
wondering why