India razes slums, leaves poor homeless

Posted: 01-14-09 by slammers
Authored By: Sara Sidner

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Hanso Devi moved to New Delhi from Rajasthan with just one hope -- to make a better life for herself and her family.

She, her husband, five children and other relatives erected a hut to live in --- a home that provided shelter and a base for her husband’s streetside blacksmith business.

The problem is that the land they built on belongs to the government. And the government has decided to take it back.

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