The Qadian Diary — Page 81
Letters, Correspondence, and Articles 67 a standstill. General Thimaya during his visit on October 8 told the local Major that curfew should have been employed against aggressors not against Ahmadies who were the aggressed and were virtually besieged and we hear that since then the curfew has been lifted but some restrictions still remain. When Ahmadies told General Thimaya that they wanted to stay, he said the local officers should arrange for this but at the same time he told Ahmadies that it will be impossible to protect them. Was not protection a duty of the Government ? ( xvi ) Our sacred places have been desecrated. Bombs have been thrown over our mosques. Two Ahmadies have been shot dead by the Police in our Central Mosque. ( xvii ) When the attack took place, about forty women were left behind in a house. Two young Muslims who went back to escort them were fired at by Police and persistent shooting resorted to. One died on the spot and the other was badly wounded. He died a few hours later. The two young men could not be buried in the cemetry in the usual Islamic way on account of restrictions put on movements. They have been buried in a part of the house of the Head of the Ahmadiyya Community. Their buried bodies afford evidence of the incident. ( xviii ) When Ahmadies expressed their determination to stay in Qadian except if duly ordered by Government, the flour machines were stopped. There was some excuse at first in the failure of the electric current. But even after the current had been restored, the machines were not allowed to work for several days. At last the Military made some of the machines work. When flour could not be had, people at Qadian had to eat boiled wheat. This resulted in an epidemic of dysentry. ( xix ) The Police and the Sikh Jathas attacked the refugees that had come to Qadian from the neighbouring villages and made