A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP
A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP
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Gujarat riots: ‘They raped me, butchered my child because we were Muslims. 17 years on, I have justice – and faith in Indian law’

  • Bilkis Bano watched a Hindu mob kill her child then gang-rape and murder her family in the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, India
  • Now at the end of her long fight for justice, she’s sometimes not sure which was worse – the crime or the trial

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Puja Changoiwala
Puja Changoiwala

Updated: 10:40am, 19 May, 2019

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A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP
A Hindu mob faces off with a Muslim mob during during Gujarat’s 2002 riots. Photo: AFP
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