取り組むing the 商売／仕事 of 的d kidnappings in Madagascar
There is 怒り／怒る that police in Madagascar have not done more to stop kidnappings
It happened five years ago but "Andre" remembers 存在 kidnapped 銃をつきつけて like it was yesterday.
He was snatched from outside his home in Madagascar, kept 捕虜 and beaten for several days, until his desperate family raised the 身代金 money to 安全な・保証する his 解放（する）.
For years, kidnapping ギャング（団）s have operated 大部分は with impunity in Madagascar, 的ing "Karanas" of Indian origin, who form a 15,000-strong community renowned for its wealth and success in 商売／仕事.
最近の 開発s 示す that 当局 in the large Indian Ocean island nation are beginning to 割れ目 負かす／撃墜する on the ギャング（団）s after a 最近の spike in attacks.
"Andre" spoke on 条件 of anonymity, telling AFP that discussing his ordeal 公然と could put him and his family in danger again.
"Even today I am sick -- as soon as I hear that there has been another kidnapping in town. It has become (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃," he said, also 拒絶する／低下するing to 明らかにする／漏らす his profession.
In his fifties, Andre says that a squad of four people arrived outside his house in the 資本／首都 Antananarivo one morning wearing hoods and carrying 強襲，強姦 ライフル銃／探して盗むs.
They bundled him into a car and took him to an unknown 目的地.
He was held in a 選び出す／独身 room, beaten, tied up and blindfolded while his captors opened 交渉s with his family.
- 'Try to 回復する' -
Andre 辞退するs to 明らかにする／漏らす the 身代金 sum that was paid, or say how it was raised, but he was 解放する／自由なd after seven days of 激しい 取引，協定ing.
粉々にするd by the experience, he fled Madagascar to try to make a fresh start before later returning to the country.
"I （機の）カム 支援する and took up sport to try to 回復する, but it's a 状況／情勢 I will never forget," he said.
In the last 10 years, at least 100 kidnappings have 的d Karanas in Madagascar, reaching a 頂点（に達する） last year.
"From what we know, there have been 14 kidnapping 事例／患者s since 2017, a 記録，記録的な／記録する level," said ジーンズ-Michel Frachet, 長，率いる of the Karana 活動／戦闘 group Collectif Francais d'Origine Indienne a Madagascar (CFOIM).
Frachet said that the real 人物／姿／数字 was higher still, as many families chose to keep silent.
"The 状況／情勢 is 緊張した for our community, the 恐れる of 報復s 存在するs and it is often 要求するd that one is 控えめの," he said, 追加するing that "the (Karana) community remains 貧しく understood by the general 全住民."
Karana 移住 from India to Madagascar dates 支援する to the late 17th century driven by 貿易（する）, and they have long 占領するd 影響力のある 地位，任命するs in 商売／仕事 and 財政／金融, 特に 支配するing the 小売 部門.
Many kept their French 市民権 after the island's independence in 1960, and are 見解（をとる）d with 疑惑 by some Madagascans.
In 2017, Forbes magazine 指名するd Madagascar's wealthiest men, 含むing Ylias Akbaraly, Hassanein Hiridjee and Iqbal Rahim -- all Karana entrepreneurs who have amassed 抱擁する riches in one of the world's poorest countries.
The father of another 的d family said that all Karanas are assumed to be 豊富な.
"I did not 推定する／予想する our family to become a 犠牲者," he said, after his son was kidnapped and later 解放（する）d when a 身代金 was paid.
"We are honest, 普通の／平均（する） 国民s who didn't do anything stupid.
"They were very 貧しく 知らせるd about my personal wealth because they first asked me for an impossible 身代金: 500 years of my salary."
- Social 緊張s -
In 最近の months, CFOIM has stepped up 需要・要求するs for 活動／戦闘, organising a 抗議する in Antananarivo in March under the 旗，新聞一面トップの大見出し／大々的に報道する "Insecurity -- that's enough!"
Madagascan 大統領 Hery Rajaonarimampianina has said the 脅し to Karanas is "容認できない"
以前 気が進まない to 演説（する）／住所 the kidnappings, 大統領 Hery Rajaonarimampianina 解放（する）d a social マスコミ ビデオ 嘆き悲しむing the 脅し to Karanas as "容認できない".
Six months ago, police and 司法（官） 当局 also 始める，決める up a special 部隊 to 取り組む the ギャング（団）s.
"広範囲にわたる 調査s and 調査s have been 行為／行うd and are continuing," the 大統領，／社長 said.
Last year, the 法廷，裁判所s 手渡すd 負かす／撃墜する 前例のない 宣告，判決s of life 条件 with hard 労働 to 20 people 設立する 有罪の of the 2015 誘拐 of two Karana 十代の少年少女s.
But many Karanas 恐れる that 増加するing 怒り／怒る directed against them on social マスコミ could 誘発する／引き起こす a new wave of 暴動s and 略奪するing of their shops and 商売／仕事s, as happened during 民族の 不安 in the 1990s and 2000s.
Some have left the country, but Andre says he will now stay.
"Our lives and 商売／仕事s are here," he said. "I just 雇うd 護衛s to 保護する us."
