Fifteen years after bloody riots, Indian Muslims struggling to escape Gujarat ghettos

Ahmedabad, India

SHAHJAHAN Bano was a young boy in February 2002, selling vegetables with his mother in a market in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat, when some of the worst communal riots in the country's history broke out.

For days mobs rampaged the city, burning houses, looting shops, raping women and killing men, women and children. More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the violence.

Mr Bano and his mother, who hid in the market the first night, were taken to a relief camp the next day where other Muslims huddled, awaiting news of their families and homes.

It was a month before Mr Bano was reunited with other family members - and eight months before they could leave the camp. They moved into what they thought would be a temporary home in Citi…