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Madagascar's justness curate have personally defended the decease punishment after a United Nations bill of exchange declaration called for member states to stop the practice.

Her remarks also come up respective years after 12 people were sentenced to decease for homicide and rebellion on the island.

The lawsuit hundred on a deathly land difference in which a small town revolted against efforts to evict residents.

Correspondents state no executings have got been carried out in Republic Of Madagascar since independency in 1960.

Mass revolt

Justice Curate Bakolalao Ramanandraibe told the BBC that her positions on the decease punishment were personal and should not be taken as the Indian Ocean island's functionary line.

She added that she was not prepared to notice on the land difference lawsuit which saw 12 decease sentences being handed down on Wednesday.

The BBC's Jonny James Hogg in the capital, Antananarivo, states in entire 92 people were charged in the case.

Besides the decease sentences, some were jailed for five years, others were sentenced to difficult labour, he says.

The difference began five old age ago when a man of affairs bought the land around Analovary village, 90km West of the capital, for a tourer development.

In August 2006, police force from the working capital were dispatched to the small town to take the occupants but were met with ferocious resistance.

The villagers rose up en masse shot and two policemen were stoned to decease and a villager was shot dead in violence.

The villagers claim they had been life on the land for generations.

The tribunal upheld the prosecution's position that their actions constituted both homicide and rebellion.