He repeatedly grabbed my father’s chin and flipped his head back and forth with great force. He also shook Baba’s head left and right and twisted his neck around. My father said all the shaking and jolting was so painful that it felt as if his brain were rolling around loose in his head. He was ultimately shaken and beaten so badly that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma for ten days. He woke up temporarily paralyzed, with thirty-six stitches in his head.
