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ddrohingya - A view of the Rohingya refugee slum at Kanchan Kunj in Delhi. The camp, which is home to some 260-odd Rohingya refugees, has been destroyed twice in a blaze that some believe may have been acts of arson.

A view of the Rohingya refugee slum at Kanchan Kunj in Delhi, India.

ST PHOTO: DEBARSHI DASGUPTA

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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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