They came with a range of weapons—sabers, spears, bows and arrows. All were ready to hand and those about to feel their force were terrified. The place was Kawanan village, a small community in the Dolo district of Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi. The time, mid-April.

What had these people done? Nothing, it seems. It was not what they had done, it was what they were. They were followers of the Baha'i faith, which is not one of the five re