History is not just filled with cruel and ruthless kings. There were also many queens, who crossed the limits of cruelty. One such queen was Ranavalona, the queen of Madagascar located in East Africa. His reign was full of cruelty and torture and slaughter on his own people.
According to History Extra, the queen of Madagascar Ranavlona ruled till 1828-61. She became the queen at such a time of this African country. When Europeans were spreading their colonial empire around the world. Rani Ranavalona was then able to keep Madagascar free from British and French control.
State population has been half with slaughter
He established his rule so cruelly that Madagascar’s population was half. From this, their cruelty and cruelty can be estimated. During his reign, there was a fierce slaughter. Especially Christians were eliminated from his kingdom.
10 thousand people got killed to build a road
The Malagasi army maintained loyalty to Rani Ranavalona. This is the reason that he started working regularly on the people of the country instead of taxes. One such incident is told that the queen once once organized a victim of buffaloes for her courtiers and family members.
For this victim, he decided to build a road so that there is no problem in moving forward. Thousands of people were hired for this. They were made to work without stopping day by day. Due to this, hunger and thirst and exhaustion lost their lives by making roads of about 10 thousand people. He immediately decided to build a road to go on hunting and thus killed thousands of people.
Thousands killed on suspicion of getting a conspiracy against yourself
Rani Ranavlona faced many conspiracies and at least one serious coup. Because of this, she was more shocked. He started a notorious Tanjena test to check the loyalty of people conspiring against him.
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It had to eat three pieces of chicken skin before swallowing a poisonous walnut. This caused the victim vomit. If the victim had vomited and split all three pieces of chicken skin, then it was believed that he had not conspired against the queen. If all three pieces were not found in vomiting, then the victim was sentenced to death. By doing this, thousands of people were killed.
Did not spare even his close ones
The queen did not spare her family. It is said that he also killed his close ones for fear of the coup. In the relationship, his sister and husband’s nephew was hungry and killed. It is said that once the queen saw one of her lover with another woman. After this, he cut her neck and hung her on the spear.
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At the beginning of her reign, the queen promoted Christianity. Because her late husband allowed Christians to live in his country. Then he changed his policy and started killing local Christians on charges of conspiring against himself. He was ruthlessly tortured. She escaped from all the conspiracies composed against her. But, one day she was found dead on her bed.
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