One man had the moral courage to speak up against the outrage. Akshay Brahmachari, a Gandhian who was then the secretary of the Faizabad District Congress, was opposed to the mobilization right from the beginning. He described the operation thus: On 13 November 1949, I was told that the Muslim graves near the Babri Masjid were being dug out en masse. I personally went and saw that it was actually so; and that in the centre
