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200,000 Gujarati Muslim internal refugees IGNORED by India & World

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In the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, India, 2000 were killed , 300 women raped and mutilated and over 200,000 displaced (95% Muslim); still 25,000 internal refugees cruelly negected by India and the world.

Key quote: "Gujarat Government has refused to give these [refugee] colonies any legitimacy, and the people living in them live in squalor, without basic services – no pucca [proper] roads, electricity, schools, health services, ration shops, or means of a dignified livelihood. Nothing. They also live with no justice and no fundamental rights of citizenship... [they] demand recognition, reparation and rehabilitation from the Indian State."

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