Serious Ranavalona I

[ElTruecel]

Ranavalona I - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

A foid was responsible for 2.5M deaths out of a population with 5M yet she’s not brought up a lot.
Notable things about her
A staunch anti-European, Ranavalona’s next mission was to wipe out the reforms carried out by her husband in a bid to modernize the nation. She expelled the European merchants, teachers, diplomats, and trade deals with Britain and France were immediately canceled. After one successful battle against an invasion, she slit the heads of Europeans, stuck them on pikes, and lined them on the beaches as a measure of repelling against foreign invaders.
The ancient medieval period’s penchant for torture and execution heavily inspired Ranavalona. She included many evil techniques to punish people and practiced it with gusto. During Ranavalona’s reign, criminals would be dumped slowly in boiling water and oil or tied down with ropes and burned alive. She would place others into coffins, and some were buried into holes with dirt showered upon them.

 

[NoLooksNoLife]

Ic

 

[ElTruecel]

Ic

The conversion of major religious, political and social leaders sparked a backlash[30] that led Ranavalona to become increasingly wary of the political and cultural effects of Christianity, which she saw as leading the Malagasy to forsake the ancestors and their traditions.[31] In October and November 1831 the queen enacted a ban on Christian marriages, baptisms, and church services for soldiers and members of government studying in the Missionary schools,[32] and in December extended the ban on church service attendance to all Malagasy.[33] From 1832 to 1834, baptisms and church services continued, increasingly in secret.[34] During this time, several Christians each year were charged with witchcraft and exiled or made to undergo the tangena ordeal,[34] and Ranavalona requested the departure of three missionaries, retaining only those whose particular technical skills she viewed as valuable to the state.[35] In 1835, the queen attempted to shut down the press without directly targeting the LMS by banning Malagasy personnel from working at the printing house. The LMS missionaries, capitalizing on the absence of legal decrees against their own work at the press, managed to continue independently printing and distributing materials.[23]

 

[NoLooksNoLife]

The conversion of major religious, political and social leaders sparked a backlash[30] that led Ranavalona to become increasingly wary of the political and cultural effects of Christianity, which she saw as leading the Malagasy to forsake the ancestors and their traditions.[31] In October and November 1831 the queen enacted a ban on Christian marriages, baptisms, and church services for soldiers and members of government studying in the Missionary schools,[32] and in December extended the ban on church service attendance to all Malagasy.[33] From 1832 to 1834, baptisms and church services continued, increasingly in secret.[34] During this time, several Christians each year were charged with witchcraft and exiled or made to undergo the tangena ordeal,[34] and Ranavalona requested the departure of three missionaries, retaining only those whose particular technical skills she viewed as valuable to the state.[35] In 1835, the queen attempted to shut down the press without directly targeting the LMS by banning Malagasy personnel from working at the printing house. The LMS missionaries, capitalizing on the absence of legal decrees against their own work at the press, managed to continue independently printing and distributing materials.[23]

Ic

 

[PLA1092]

brutal