Hassan Muwanguzi, poisoned earlier this year by Muslim relatives, did not expect the Muslim extremists who threatened to kill him on June 16 to murder his 12-year-old daughter on June 25.
Muwanguzi did not recognize the four men who appeared at his door and forced their way into his home in Katira, outside Mbale in eastern Uganda, with one shouting: ‘Today we shall kill you. You have been a trouble-maker and are not respecting our prophet’s religion’.
A former Muslim sheikh who converted to Christianity in 2003, Muwanguzi knew that Muslims are taught to spare females in attack, especially one as young as the daughter in his sitting room. He rushed to lock himself in another room. His wife and other children were not at home. He heard the cries of his daughter, Grace Baruka, as they began strangling her, and when he came out of the room’s doorway that opened to the sitting room, they seized him.
