Fosa War

The Fosa War (: 프산아디 Fosan'ady) was a compromised  undertaken in Ambemarivo in the late 1962, to combat  migrations into villages of Fanaokely Province. The event was congruent with massively-organized in the region earlier that year, and constituted the first deployment of the People's Liberation Army since the Dead Road Uprising a year prior. The operation was largely unsuccessful, with villagers and army personnel sustaining injuries until deforestation was put to a halt and the fosa were able to return to their habitat.

Background
After the Dead Road Uprising, the Workers' Party Ambemarivo was eager to consolidate its political power, while also toiling to prove its superiority in contrast to the predecessor provisional state. An ambitious project to lengthen the Volamendrenirano Canal (still ending between the borders of Fanaokely and Rasamaina provinces to this day) was proposed by newly-instated Minister of Transportation Valimbavaka Arilaza, approved by the Farikidinike, and codenamed "Operation Arrow" (떼띠까사 싸나찌삐까 Tetikasa Zanatsipika). Ideally, the forests of Fanaokely and Ranomafy (nowadays protected as Ranomafy National Park) would be cut down procedurally, would ensue, and then new settlements along the extension would be promoted and preparedly  while the remainder project itself was in progress. Valimbavaka envisioned a canal that would carve through Toky-Azo Province and connect to the Western Ocean from its south. Such an opening would have in dispatch: In offense (exemplarily against Matobo or Namju), vessels could flexibly  (ambush then retreat inward); In defense, enemy vessels approaching from either coast could be swiftly surrounded.

 presence in Fanaokely is not without precedent. In the of the west, where fosa are more easily exposed, they are occasionally hunted for, effectively reducing their numbers. But in the of the east (Fanaokely and Ranomafy included), where they are more evasive and dangerous, they have entered the local  ("taboo") as evil and repugnant animals. Clashes between fosa and eastern villages trace back to the of the Zafiboina Kingdom (11th century CE), with fosa reportedly preying on. In eastern folklore, fosa are said to abduct misbehaving children and to scavenge from the. By disrespecting the ancestral corpses, they are imbued with bad  ("sanctity"), and those who consume fosa likewise inherit it. As a result, fosa are reciprocally avoided in the east and are able to proliferate freely within their territories.