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Since 2013, over 1,100 Hindu refugees from Pakistan have built their lives near Majnu Ka Tila. What began as makeshift jhuggi-jhopdhis have become self-made pakka homes. They pay high electricity bills, send their children to local government schools, and nearly 300 have already secured Indian citizenship. The rest are trying — urgently, wholeheartedly — to become Indians too. They came seeking peace, and still believe in that promise. But now, faced with the threat of displacement once more, they plead to stay. "We ask for nothing," they say, "only to live here in peace."

Reporter: Saher Hiba Khan
Camera: Vikram Sharma
Editor: Sudhanshu

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00:00The BGB government has said that the building has been open and they are from Paris.
00:07We have come from Pakistan, we have come from Pakistan,
00:10but when we come from Pakistan,
00:12the government will have to meet us somewhere.
00:15It will not be taken away from us.
00:17We have to take away from them.
00:18We have to take away from them, but we are not taking away from them.
00:20We have to take away from them.
00:30It was a very difficult time for us to be able to escape.
00:37We came from there and came from here and came from there.
00:40How did we get hurt?
00:42If we die, it's right.
00:44If we get hurt, we can't forget it.
00:47We came from there and came from there.
00:49If we get hurt from here, we can't get hurt.
00:52In the 14th, 15th, 16th century,
00:54this one was in the first place.
00:56Later, it was DDU.
00:58We had a case in high-codes.
01:01So DDU has put it on later.
01:06Later, the BJP government, the government,
01:13took us and told us that
01:18until you are here,
01:21we have to be able to escape.
01:23If you are here,
01:24wherever you are,
01:27wherever you are,
01:29we will be able to escape.
01:31After that,
01:33we will be able to escape.
01:34the government's death and have to stop.
01:36We will go there and take some time to leave.
01:38In 2013, the parliament was 14th,
01:40after that.
01:41After that, we will stop.
01:43The government will leave,
01:44while you are not even leaving.
01:45If we do whatever it is,
01:46when you are leaving,
01:47we will leave.
01:48The government will leave,
01:49if it's our land.
01:50There are 13,000 people in the 10-12 years.
01:53We need government.
01:55The government will leave.
01:56We will leave.
01:57We will not leave.
01:58We will do what we will do.
02:00We have no home.
02:02We have no home from Pakistan.
02:05We have no home from Pakistan.
02:07When I was living in the building,
02:09there are 212 families.
02:11700, 700, 700, 700 people.
02:13They are very small.
02:15We have 10 camps.
02:17We have only camp.
02:19We have no home.
02:21We have to take clothes.
02:23We have to make a house.
02:25We have to make a house.
02:27We have to make a house.
02:29This is not our place.
02:31We have to go to SIP.
02:34We are also the ones.
02:36But we have to go to the house.
02:38My grandma, my dad, all of us were here.
02:42We would go to the house.
02:44My daughter has been in the same place.
02:45For 13 years, we have been living in one hour at a time.
02:51After a while, our children have been in the same place.
02:55Our children are still alive.
02:58Our children are still alive and we are still alive.
03:03My children are still alive, but we are still alive.
03:08Our children are still alive, we are still alive.
03:10He gave us water, we gave us food, we gave us money, we gave us food, we gave us land.
03:17No! We didn't have to sit down in this village.
03:20We would take our village for 15 years, and then we would go.
03:26But after that, we would go.
03:28We would also have to go.
03:30It was also our country. It was also our country.
03:33We would see how many people are coming from there.
03:35Who is coming from there?
03:37We have to run away from people,
03:40we have to run away from people,
03:42and we have to take everything from someone.
03:44We have to take everything from government,
03:47from government and from Bhartia.
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