The village was predominantly Muslim, but the government had developed the cemetery and had decreed it was open to all people from the village. When an evangelical Christian died, the church folks went about burying him there, but, as they were doing so, a group of Muslim men came and beat the burial party. They claimed the land as theirs (Muslim) and that Christians had no right to bury their dead there. The leader of the group was the man who owned the adjacent land and had