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  • A cow walks through the streets of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India after it was ravaged by a bloody spree of communal riots that killed an untold number and seriously threatens India's secular credentials on March 1, 2002. Officials put the death toll at more than 1000 but human rights groups and opposition parties say it is closer to 2,000 people killed. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Nisha Rathad, 20, covers her face and giggles as she stands in front of the Hindu Aryan symbol painted on her home March 2, 2002 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 and killed over three hundred people in three days, the worst communal bloodshed in a decade. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • An elderly Muslim woman's body whose throat was slashed and then set on fire lies outside of her home March 2, 2002 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. Troops arrived in India's riot-torn western state of Gujarat but were unable to quell the religious violence that brought back stark memories of Partition in 1947. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Indian police drag away a man believed to be instigating violence in central Ahmedabad, India, March 3, 2002. The violence left more than a thousand dead and an entire nation traumatized and divided. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Shah Jaha Kabir Ali Shaikh, 18, who was burned by mobs of Hindu rioters on February 28, recovers inside a refugee camp inside a mosque in Ahmedabad, India, May 12, 2002. Thousands of people who fled their homes are still living in squalid conditions since a wave of revenge killings and clashes erupted in late February. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Muslims who had begged police to protect them the day before huddle in the wreckage of their burned out homes March 2, 2002 after a mob of Hindu neighbors attacked them from across a street of Ahmedabad, India. They said that 2 babies were burned alive as well as countless others who were killed in the worst religious violence India has seen in 10 years. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Children run through the streets as the Indian Rapid Action Force conduct a flag in the disputed northern Indian city of Ayodhya, March 14, 2002. The police have sealed the city in anticipation of preventing thousands of kar sewaks or holy men from building a temple near the site of a razed 16th century mosque that ignited a spree of killing. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Muslim children sit inside Dariya Khan Ghhumnat Rahat refugee camp set up outside a school in the state of Gujarat in Ahmedabad, India, May 10, 2002. The extent of the damage and displacement of more than 120,000 people has threatened the secular ideals of India and left the government under attack for its inadequate relief arrangements. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • A burned Koran sits outside of the home of a murdered Muslim politician in Ahmedabad, India. Troops arrived in India's riot-torn western state of Gujarat but were unable to quell the worst communal bloodshed in a decade. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Indian firemen attempt to put out a rapidly spreading fire in a Muslim neighborhood of central Ahmedabad, India, on March 1, 2002. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Shaikh Kulsumbibi, 37, a Muslim whose village of Sardarpur was destroyed in a gruesome vengeance attack weeps as she seeks refuge in another village in India, March 3, 2002. Hindus came in the middle of the night and massacred nearly every one of her neighbors and family living there in a strategically designed plan which involved flooding the exit and then electrocuting those who were not first killed by the firebombs and kerosene. By photographer Ami Vitale
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  • Tens of thousands of Muslims streamed into makeshift refugee camps after the riots that left more than 120,000 people homeless and hundreds of children orphans. By photographer Ami Vitale
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