Indo-Guyanese, who make up 48% of the population, feel targeted, and plan their movements carefully.
Some 200 Indo-Guyanese were pulled from minibuses, beaten, robbed or thrown into drainage canals.
The Guyanese obliged, and the monitors duly turned up and declared the ballot fair.
Her country remains torn by a 40-year feud between Afro- and Indo-Guyanese political parties.
The Guyanese economy exhibited moderate economic growth in recent years and is based largely on agriculture and extractive industries.
But it wins in Georgetown, where its supporters find it hard to believe they can be outvoted overall by rural Indo-Guyanese.
Jamaican Lawrence Rowe, the Guyanese Alvin Kallicharran, both hit centuries on debut in 1972 and are both considered "greats" by many.
Guyanese may disagree fiercely over politics, but they can pull together too.
He was born in Saudi Arabia and carries a Guyanese passport.
The Guyanese is unimpressed by the suggestion he was too aggressive as a batsman, arguing instead that his best years came while West Indies were still strong.
Guyanese politics, too, is uneasily split along racial lines.
Ali - who started boxing professionally in 1999 and won her first world boxing title in 2002 - was to trade blows with O'Neil, a little-known Guyanese boxer, in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
To counteract this development, the country is trying to implement a carbon credit scheme that will see richer economies pay to preserve the Guyanese rainforest and save it from destruction by gold and diamond miners.
The Guyanese left-hander needed lengthy treatment, but opted to continue and despite losing Powell, who was bowled by Lee for three, he reached his 18th Test century off 259 balls with a straight drive off Clark.
Sarwan got a touch on a short delivery from Mitchell Johnson and was caught by Brad Haddin down the leg side, ending a disappointing comeback for the Guyanese batsman - with scores of 28 and seven here.
With frustration growing in the field, Pietersen produced one sharply spinning off-break that almost squeezed through Sarwan, but it looked as though the closest England would come to dislodging the Guyanese was when he crashed a drive painfully into his inside leg.
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