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Gujarat riots revisited
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Unidentified relatives of accused and TV cameramen wait outside the district court in Mehsana, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ahmadabad. The court convicted 31 people for killing dozens of Muslims by setting a building on fire in Gujurat state nine years ago. AP Photo/Ajit Solanki
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An unidentified relative of one of the convicts breaks down upon hearing the verdict at the district court in Mehsana, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ahmedabad. The court convicted 31 people for killing dozens of Muslims by setting a building on fire in Gujurat nine years ago. AP Photo/Ajit Solanki
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(File) Qutubuddin Ansari, whose face symbolised the trauma of 2002 violent Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat, gestures as he talks to the press in Bombay, 07 August 2003. Ansari said he was forced to abandon the state following the immense publicity he got during the riots with his photos and stories splashed across newspaper pages and television screens worldwide. AFP Photo/Vikas Khot
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(File) A group of men convicted in connection with the murder of Muslims during riots on 04 March 2002 near Godasar in Gujarat, peers through the bars through the bars of their cell following sentencing at the district court in Nanidad, some 65 Kms south of Ahmedabad, 25 November 2003. AFP Photo
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(File) Bilkis Yakub Rasool, a housewife who was gangraped during the 2002 Gujarat riots, addresses a media conference in New Delhi, 21 January 2008. The Bilkis Bano gang-rape case, the judgement of which was delivered in Mumbai 18 January 2008, was unique as the conviction of the 12 accused was based solely on the victim's deposition, counsel in the case said. AFP PHOTO/ Manan Vatsyayana
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(FILES) In this photograph taken on February 28, 2002, a policeman looks as fire rages in shops at the entrance to a mosque in Ahmedabad, following an attack by a mob. AFP Photo/Sebastian D'Souza
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Special Prosecutor SC Shah briefs media representatives outside the district session court at Mehsana, some 70 kms from Ahmedabad. The court found 31 Hindus guilty of killing 33 Muslims in a single house during savage religious riots in the state of Gujarat in 2002. AFP Photo / Sam Panthaky
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(FILES) This picture taken 04 March 2002 shows ten years old boy, Shahrukh, receiving some food as he recovers from his injuries in a civil hospital in Ahmedabad after his house was doused with petrol and set ablaze by an angry mob during communal riots. AFP Photo/Indranil Mukherjee
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(File) Two men stand in amongst the wreckage of a house which was burnt down during recent riots in Ode village, 04 March 2002, some 78 kms south of Ahmedabad. AFP Photo/Indranil Mukherjee
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(File) Homeless people whose houses were burnt during recent riots sit at camp Bapu Nagar in Ahmedabad on 02 March 2002. The state-wide death toll in Hindu-Muslim clashes following a 27 February train attack in Gujarat which killed 58. AFP Photo/Indranil Mukherjee
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