The Qadian Diary — Page 76
Hazrat Mirza Bashir Ahmad 62 to the higher authorities or by reference to the Captain who was commanding the party. The communique said that these men in uniform were students of the Qadian college. The college had been closed for the summer vacation and is still closed. The fact is that when Sikhs saw that they had been caught, they made a false re- port on the instigation of the local Police in the thana. The Central Government did not care to examine the report of the Military and hastened to issue a false report. We say again that the Military diary will at once expose this report. ( iii ) In Qadian and in the area around Muslims have been killed by the thousand. More than 100 villages have been looted and burnt. But not one arrest has been made. On the other hand about a dozen Qadian Ahmadies have been arrested. Upon whom should the administration have laid its hand ? Upon those who burnt and looted the villages and dispossessed the villagers ? Or those who were driven away from their homes and dispossessed of their lands ? It was certainly those responsible for criminal acts who should have been arrested. ( iv ) After the area around had been cleared and the people of Qadian had become virtually besieged, responsible Ahmadies began to be arrested on false charges. Two Secretaries of the Community, both 60 years old, were arrested (and still remain arrested) on the charge that they went out with the Military and killed Sikhs. One of the two accused is an M. L. A. And who can believe that the Community will appoint its top-ranking leaders to kill rough and illiterate Sikh villagers ? If they accompanied the Military, why did not the Military shoot them and why did the Police take action after two weeks when that Military detachment had left. It is as well to point out that the Military in question had a Hindu officer, Captain Rawley, to be exact. One of the accused Syed Waliullah Shah never went out. The other Chaudhri Fateh