workingclasshistory:

On this day, 6 March 1964, a striking sugarcane worker called Kowsilla, a.k.a. Alice, was killed in Guyana, then a British colony, by being severed in two by a tractor driven by a strikebreaker.
The white British-owned Tate sugar company was attempting to exploit racial divisions in the working class by hiring replacement workers of African descent to try to break a national strike of workers predominantly of Asian descent. A dozen women were picketing the Leonora estate when the scab, Felix Ross, drove over them killing Kowsilla, breaking the backs of and permanently disabling two others, Jagdai and Daisee Sookram, and severely injuring Kisson Dai, who lost a kidney, and others. Ross was acquitted of any crime.
Racial tensions would escalate and culminate in the mass killing of Asians later that year. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1936206719897802/?type=3