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Anti-Rohingya hate comes into focus in India after court petition against Facebook

A view of the Rohingya refugee slum at Kanchan Kunj in Delhi, India. ST PHOTO: DEBARSHI DASGUPTA
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NEW DELHI – The interiors of the Kanchan Kunj camp in Delhi – home to about 260 Rohingya refugees crammed into a plot around the size of a football ground – are dark even during the day.

Sunlight barely makes its way into the ramshackle tenement covered entirely by large tarpaulin sheets held in place by bamboo poles.

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