It happened on the night of my arrival in Ambohimahamasina and lucky for a few days earlier I had spoken to a friend or I would be scared to death!
In rural villages, since there are no police or gendarmerie, the security is organized on a local, self-sustained patrols in that, if any, are called upon to defend the property of the peasants. The most common threat is the attack of the bandits, cattle thieves normally. When someone sight, launches koka, an alarm, used to call the rally. All men of the village are forced to respond, under penalty of a fine imposed by the municipality.
That evening, the quiet the night is broken by the cries of koka. M. Ema, my host, leave the table and dressed in a hurry. Spend a few minutes and put the bells to ring frantically. From the houses sleeping in the dark out of people. It is feared the theft of cattle!
The next morning I explained that it was rather a dispute between neighbors and there is also escaped the dead! On Monday, market day, you know, always gets a little 'elbow, and these things can happen! The unfortunate victim had made advances not really like the jealous neighbor's wife, who did not find anything better to do than to deal a blow not just to accept calibrated. End of story. The victim is over hospital and died a few hours later. In these cases, the municipality provides for the application of the DINA, a traditional form of law that the jail was added to a compensation of about 3000 € for the family of the victim. If the attacker can not honor the debt directly, it will be his entire family, which here is quite enlarged to occupy doversene. In our case, it would be interesting to know how to solve the story: it seems that the aggressor is none other than the mayor's brother, a very powerful man, in this small community.
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