The Qadian Diary — Page 83
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 69 two small pockets and their private and public buildings taken possession of. If stopping of convoys to Qadian was not with this end in view, then how did the looting and dispossession synchronised with the stopping of convoys ? The plain fact is that the Police was afraid that if a convoy arrived while loot and dispossession were going on, the visitors would become eye- witnesses of what was being done at Qadian. ( xxiv ) As hinted above, our college and school buildings have been forcibly occupied. The college building, it is said, has been made over to the Sikh National College, Lahore. The D. C. , Gur- daspur, refused to have anything to do with it. The local Major said that his Brigadier had sent orders that the Military should assist the Police in having these places vacated. The college building was built by our own money, the Government not having contributed even a pie to it. ( xxv ) Our hospital has also been occupied. Our sick, some of them dangerously wounded, were mercilessly driven out. Wrapped in sheets they were taken by our men to our camp where they are now lying without aid or attention. ( xxvi ) Ahmadies of Qadian are unable to visit their forcibly vacated homes even after curfew hours. On October 4, nine Ah- madies who had ventured out to collect their belongings were shot at and killed. Government authorities cannot plead ignorance nor say that these things happened too suddenly to enable them to do anything about them:— ( a )The Head of the Community himself saw Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru at Lahore on 2nd September and explained to him the position at Qadian. He promised to do something, but practically nothing has transpired. ( b ) Ahmadies from all parts of the world addressed appeals