The Qadian Diary — Page 90
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 76 them bare-footed and bare-headed. Ever since our children and women are living under extremely trying conditions. They have no bedding, no clothes and are even without the bare necessaries of life. 13. Ever since the 3rd all the Ahmadies of Qadian are living practically in two separate refugee camps, so to speak, one in Qadian proper and the other more than half a mile away from it. All the means of communication between the two have been practically cut off. It is only by the courtesy of Major Wright and the Magistrate that both these camps are enabled to inter-communicate. In the night when village Bhaini was attacked by a Jatha of several thousand Sikhs for three hours shots continued to be fired at our houses from the Hindu and Sikh houses behind Masjid Aqsa. 14. On the morning of the 4th after the curfew was lifted some of our people attempted to leave the old part of the town of Qadian and go out to see their kith and kin in the other camp, but several of them were shot dead when they passed by the non-Muslims and the Sikh Police without any provocation or excuse. The worst part of this dastardly outrage is that we were not permitted to take away our dead. All the dead bodies so far have been disposed of in some manner unknown to us. 15. On the 5th when our position had been extremely un- tenable and when we felt that our very existence had become jeopardised, three of our representatives, Mirza Aziz Ahmad, M. A. , Retd. A. D. M. and Amir