Journalist Rickey Singh defends Sonny Ramphal's "ethnic cleansing" comment

Talk of "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide", used occasionally by reckless or frustrated political elements in our Caribbean Community, belong to the lexicon of a diseased political culture that have had horrible manifestations in what was once Yugoslavia and in a few African states.

In our region, we are accustomed to learning, or worse, experiencing, cases of discrimination based on ethnicity and, to a lesser extent, nationality. However strong the claims of such discrimination, the familiar refrain from officialdom has been "not true".

Wherever and whenever discrimination, based either on race, religion, nationality or gender occurs, it makes a mockery of provisions in national constitutions that ensure us of our fundamental rights and of national mottos that salute our unity in diversity, our "oneness" as a people.

The above paragraphs are from a column in the Sunday Express by journalist Rickey Singh. Read more on the subject by the same writer.