In the picture above: A room in the Dariyakhan Ghummat relief camp in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) housing over 50 women and children in 2002. The camp held 5,100 people and is one of approximately one hundred relief camps in Gujarat, where 98,000 people, a great majority of them Muslim, have been displaced by the violence. Photo courtesy: Smita Narula / Human Rights Watch

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