It goes much deeper

Guyana’s 2011 elections is portrayed as a numerical anomaly despite its symbiosis with ethnic voting patterns worldwide. Even in Fiji where successive Indian based governments were overthrown in “four coups and a bloody military mutiny  since 1987, mainly as a result of tension between the majority  indigenous Fijian population and an economically powerful,  ethnic Indian minority” there has been a realization that Fiji must change to survive.
Fiji’s military ruler, Commodore Frank Bainimarama said he wanted to end the ethnic tension. Any new government must be founded on “a truly democratic system based on the principle of one person, one vote, one value; we will not have a system that will classify Fijians based on ethnicity”, he said. This came about after the Commonwealth called for the restoration of democracy. (SN-1–3-2012 “Fiji military must restore democracy-Commonwealth”)
While it seems that Guyanese Indians will always be blamed and judged as guilty just because of their numbers, presence and existence, it goes much deeper.

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