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Ami Vitale
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10 May, 2002
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.
Ami Vitale
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