The Qadian Diary — Page 80
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 66 attribute it to the Ahmadiyya Community, and the Government does not contradict. ( xii ) After imposing the curfew the Police have collaborated with the Jathas in an attack on Qadian. About 200 Ahmadies have so far been killed. The local official report put the figure at 30. When the point was raised before General Thimaya during his visit to Qadian on October 8, local Ahmadies claimed that a single pit contained no less than 40 dead bodies and there were more pits which could be shown to the General if he so desired. But General Thimaya possibly did not have the time to see this for himself. ( xiii ) The bodies of the dead were not handed over to the Community, but were thrown into pits and buried without the rites prescribed by Islam. Hindus and Sikhs are well aware that Muslims bury their dead in a certain way. To deny this is barbarous and cruel in the extreme. The Police prevented approach to the dead bodies to hide the number and the identity of the killed. ( xiv ) The Police have looted Ahmadi houses, after turning Ahmadies out of them. The looted houses include the house of Sir Mohammad Zafrullah Khan and a house of the Head of the Community. Sir Zafrullah’s house has been looted by the Military itself. The Captain in charge at that time is reported to have made away with the loot. The house is even now occupied by the Military and similarly, hundreds of other houses (including houses of some military officers) have been looted. ( xv ) The whole of the population has been forced to squeeze itself into two or three pockets of the town, which ordinarily will not accommodate more than four or five hundred persons living in a mess. People are debarred from moving about even after curfew hours. Those who make the attempt are shot. There are still about 10,000 persons in Qadian and these have been squeezed into two or three small pockets. Scavenging arrangements have come to