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.Lahore: April 28, 2013. (PCP) On 26th April, 2013 at about 2:00pm a source told Khurram Akhtar (Research officer, The Voice) that an incidence of persecution against Christians has happened in Chak 31-10/R Essa pur, where the Muslims have held the Christians for insulting Makkah Sharif, a Mob of Muslims about 50-80 people gathered the house of a Christian family named Albert Masih and started shouting and raising slogans there, " kill these bleady Christians they are liable to be burnt like Badami Bagh". The Voice team comprised of Adv. Aneeqa Maria, Khurram Akhtar, Shahid Anthony and Napolean Qayyum left Lahore to visit the affected Village. The team reached at the village at about 10:00pm. The area was restricted and nobody was allowed to enter the village. A police officer told the Voice team that the whole village is empty and the Christian families have left. The situation is very critical there and there is a call from the Sipa-Sahaba Muslim Ulema community to attack the Christian houses. Therefore people have left but police is there to protect the village.
The Voice team came to know from a source that the affected/ persecuted family has taken refuge in another village. The Voice team went ahead to see the family. The TVS team reached there to see the family at about 1:00am. There we met many affected families including Nasir Anjum, Kaleem Masih, and Samuel Sahotra. They told us about the incidence in detail.
Nasir Anjum told TVS (The Voice Society) That the situation started became tense after the occurrence of Badami Bagh in Lahore i.e after Jan 2013, the Muslims became livid after the incidence of 295C in Badamiu bagh and planned to wipeout Christians from their towns and villages saying that all Christians are anti-Islamic, they use to insult our Holy Quran and Holy prophet. They do not respect our religion and therefore they should not live in our communities. The Village 31. Chak is comprised of 40 Christian houses, and therefore the Muslims started teasing and harassing Christians. Almost 25 days ago the Muslims started dispute saying that you people lay your weaved beds in the wrong directions. The foot of your bed lays in the direction of Makkah Sharif, which is very insulting and unbearable for us. The argument went manic and the Christians called the police on 15, but the police reached 4hours late. The people from the neighbors settled down the situation. Later when the police came the Muslim group that was creating aggravation excused from the Christians that they were wrong. But then each day afterwards the Muslims named Madd Khan, Aziz Ullah Khan, Javed Khan, Yousaf Khan, Majeeb-Ur- Rehman, Shifa ullah Khan, Sana Ullah khan, Jamshed Ullah Khan, Ajmal Khan, Amin Ullah Khan, Nadeem Khan, Shahid Khan and Adreem Khan started laying eyes upon Christians and do not let go any petty issue to quarrel with the Christians.
One Christian villager told the Voice that on the day of occurrence the Christian family named Albert Nathenial, his son David Albert, and his relative Samuel Yaqoob were in their house when Madad Khan along with his fellows and sons named above came to their house and started shouting and hitting them with the bricks on the walls of the house that why did you used the thresher of the other party this time when you always use our thresher for cutting the crops. The dispute elevated and turned into a fight. Later Madad Khan and his fellows called their other fellows and the quarrel turned into fierce firing upon the house of the Christians. The Muslims started breaking the doors of the house to enter the house, whereas in the house there were women and children of the family. David and Albert also started throwing bricks from their roof just to save their family. Meanwhile David snatched a gun from one of the attackers but the gun was loaded and it fired a shot due to which a man from the attackers named Yousaf khan died at the spot and another person got severely injured and is in hospital.
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