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Fifteen years after bloody riots, Indian Muslims struggling to escape Gujarat ghettos
Published Mon, Jul 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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.
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