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December 17, 2014

'Anyone but the Chinese': Madagascar workers demand new masters
Morondava, Madagascar (AFP) Dec 17, 2014
Workers at a Chinese sugar refinery in Madagascar, where a long-simmering labour dispute boiled over into deadly riots last week that left at least four dead, are unequivocal about what it would take to get them back to work. "We don't want the Chinese. We do not want to work with the Chinese," Leon Clement, a workers' representative at Sucoma, said. "In front of government ministers they promise to give us more rights but they never do!" Bernard Jerome, another of the 2,000 people employed ... read more

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