Madagascar, a Selective Justice Against a Single Ethnic Group, the "Merinas"

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Less than two months after the establishment of a new government, concerns arise over decisions qualified by some observers as being under "selective justice", directed against a particular category of the Malagasy population, the Merinas, an ethnic group of the Highlands that is responsible for prolonged arrests, prosecutions and detentions. The Mérinas (Merina) form a people occupying the northern part of the central highlands of Madagascar, o…