The majority of the rioters were mixed-race Creoles, people whose ancestors were African slaves and Europeans and who disproportionately make up the ranks of the island's poor. Creoles charged that police beat Kaya to death. About 80 percent of the police force is of Indian descent, said Henry Srebrnik, a Canadian academic who has written extensively on Mauritius. The Indians, mostly Hindus whose ancestors were brought to work in the sugarcane fields, make up 51 percent of the population. Hindus hold most of the civil service jobs, and the wealthy Franco-Mauritians control much of the business sector.
Creoles tend to be manual laborers or hold blue collar jobs.
It was most affected by the reggae riots. You normally find Creoles living in the suburbs where conditions are very poor. Many Creoles and Euro-Mauritians opposed independence from Britain in 1968, worried about the dominance of the Hindu majority. All the country's government leaders have been Hindus. We are going to work more to paying attention to places that need more infrastructure, better schools, better teachers.