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in Iho month. I aM afternoon prayers my ow? bousp. ^.ftcrwa.vfa \ wci*J
to Butuzi's shop to buy oolToo. Jlcforo I arrived tUm I ^ tha^iop of
Wuallim that a^ervant of Abdu Nabi, a one-eyed, n^o,,u-a§;.^Ut byoa^S^d
Onhtani and wqb trying to got-J°QBQ> ij\ onjo£ji)4yJQXJJlQ^Aof V.hoiji
AbdupWa errant
got looso and rcaobod tho boys nnd they began figb.Ung; a largo n.jwjpr o
Arabs, I can’t say how many, wor<> collected tlierp.. Moauwhilp A,bdu Nabi,
arrived with somo of bis scranta and eopio of tho shop pooplo. AJad&JIabL
called out *• Bizan ” ol Ghowazi f.l hot " strike. «' I have tho money in my,
houeo^TnrT'noney for paying compensation if necessary).
Tlioy struck a nogro named Marr.uk bin Ismail nnd rnado his fnco bleed,
nnd ho caught hold of Abdu Nnbi by the chest of his oont. I them wont away
to my houso and saw no moro. I did not moot any woundod person in tho
6trcot nor did I soo any ouo wouuded cxcopt Alarzulc.
I was errf iftet JPridayJ.o Sheikh Ahmed's (Dccombor 2nd), pnd they.
wrote down my statomentT' ........
1 Wo cross-oxauJWaTion.
No. 14.
Ahmed Nasir^Babroini, aged 40, on solemn affirmation states:—I a in
a rice sollcr. I remember tho disturbance at tho boginniug of this month,
4th or Oth. On that day I was in my shop selling groceries. My shop
is outside tho bazaar. Tho disturbance was far from my shop. I could not
see it from my shop. A numbor of Persians passed my shop going towards
Iho bazaar. I don’t know who any of them wero. They woro like masons.
Tlioy went silontly altogothor. No ono that I rccoguisi’d was with them.
Afterwards they oamo back about 10 minutes later, and Arabs woro with thorn.
Thn^Ani])9 \rp.rn frightened and running- nvcay-antLJP.nraiaiis fdhnvjng^tjjom.
Thoro woro not moro than GO porsons or slightly uudor. IVhen I saw thompiTg..
tho Porsians, tlioy woro beating tho Ar^Jbs. I saw no Arab killed, or auy
wounded^ t^id-not-soo-ftnyHPore1nh“kin"cd, but I saw Abdu Nabi’s fathor aud
brother lying on the ground and tho Arabs beating them.
After I saw tho Porsian masons coming back as abovo stated, I closed my
shop. I closed oarly owiug to tho disturbance, as I thought there was no moro
chanoo.of business.
When I shut up, I went towards my house. I saw pooplo beating
AInhomed Kal ltozn and his father. I did not help thorn. I am too poor a
person. I mado oil'to my house. Arabs woro actually beating them. I r.npnot
rccognisojmj_o£llicm. There was a crowd of about 80 or 100 persons, slavos,
Arab^rllomcboru negros, and somo women.
Thoro wero only two Persians, Mahomed and bis fathor. Abdu Nabi was
running away. Somo Arabs wero following him to beat him.
Thoy reached him, but bo caonpod by bis good luok. Ho escaped to Ali
bin Kazim’s liouso. w _ __________ ______ ^ ^
bin Kazim’s bouso. I saw him go in thcro with pooplo after him, but I did
not soo otbpr pooplo outer tho bouso. Tho people inside olosod tho door. I
tlion wont homo and djd not copio out again. I don’t know what was tho

mo to sny what I had soon, I told him I had soon tho Persians running aftor
in ArnftvS\ nQ man Am?su Jr,ol° ib< Uo is a ahopkeoper. I did uot toTl thorn
all I have U>ld you. Tlioy did not ask mo so much ; tlioy only took down a
fow words from mo and then nllowod mo to go. 7 •
Cross-examined1 by Sheikh Hamod
know whatnot P°rSilm ma30M lmd °“n“ aud eomo tUiok' »ticka—I don’t
know what for.
»J™.arjsaaf"‘Mir r»» r“i™ *«*
hoods. I.BOworovolvoHn tlolm.?^ b Jr.8, 0arr^'>8 nothing in their
Ho did not Dro it,.»nd I don’t know whatZwont i“"" ^ AbdU Nttbi’