Remembering Hladini Dasi, who was martyred while attempting to save the lives of the male devotees during the Liberian civil war (1990).
From the YouTube description:
The death squad arrived at the Hare Krishna temple in the early morning hours. Hladini Dasi shouted, “Better you kill me than kill them!” She
Gave up her life protecting other devotees. Without a second thought. Hladini Dasi Sunday, October 3, is the anniversary of the day in 1990 on which
Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa. The death squad arrived at the
Hare Krishna temple in the capital city of Monrovia in the early morning hours, and ordered the devotees to come out. Seven devotees, five men and two
women, exited the temple and filed into the waiting jeep. They were driven a short distance to the Sturton Bridge, where the devotees were forced out
at gunpoint and herded onto the sand next to the river. The leader announced that only the men would be killed. Thus Hladini, a woman, knew she would
not be killed. As the leader raised his weapon to fire the first execution volley, Hladini leapt forward and attacked him with her bare hands. She
shouted, “How dare you kill the devotees of Krishna? Better you kill me than kill them!” Hladini was the first to be shot...
edit on 5-12-2021 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)