An ox walks through the ravaged streets of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Nisha Rathad, 20, covers her face and giggles as she stands in front of the Hindu Aryan symbol painted on her home on 2 March in Ahmedabad, India. Her Muslim neighbor had been killed a few feet away from her home the day before. These symbols were painted on most Hindus homes to protect them from the religious violence that swept through this region. In February, the city had been the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

An elderly Muslim woman's body whose throat was slashed and then set on fire lies outside of her home in Ahmedabad, India. Her home sat next door to a local police station but she and an untold number of others were brutally killed by angry mobs on a spree of vengeance. In February, the city had been the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Police drag away a man accused of instigating violence in central Ahmedabad, India. In February, the city had been the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

A burned Koran sits outside of the home of a murdered Muslim politician in Ahmedabad, India. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Indian firemen attempt to put out a rapidly spreading fire in a Muslim neighborhood of central Ahmedabad, India. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Shah Jaha Kabir Ali Shaikh (18) who was burned by Hindu rioters on 28 February, recovers inside a refugee camp inside a mosque in Ahmedabad, India. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Muslims gather in the wreckage of their burned-out homes in Ahmedabad, India. They had been attacked by Hindu neighbors from across the street. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Shaikh Kulsumbibi (37), a Muslim, weeps after most of the residents of her village of Sardarpur in Gujarat, India, have been killed during a night-attack. In February, Gujarat was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Children run through the streets as the Indian Rapid Action Force conduct a flag in the disputed northern Indian city of Ayodhya. The police have sealed the city in anticipation of preventing thousands of Hindu holy men from building a temple near the site of a razed 16th century mosque that ignited a spree of killing.

Tens of thousands of Muslims streamed into makeshift refugee camps after the riots in Ahmedabad, India, that left more than 120,000 people homeless and hundreds of children orphans. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

Muslim children sit inside Dariya Khan Ghhumnat Rahat refugee camp, set up outside a school in Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, India. In February, the city was the scene of some of the worst communal violence in India for a decade. In retaliation for an earlier Muslim attack on a train carrying mainly Hindu pilgrims, which left 58 dead, people rampaged through city streets setting fire to Muslim homes and businesses. Violence continued into May. Thousands fled their homes, and the official death toll was over 900, though estimates by human rights groups placed the figure much higher.

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