Concrete changes

This should not have happened in a society where harmony is the official goal. From what information is available to us, it is more like a brutal episode from a gangster movie:

The doors were smashed open. A crowd of men, uniformed and helmeted, swarmed in. Finding that they were about to demolish his home, the owner, who was still living in fear after a recent attack by unknown men, spilled gasoline on himself.

But that turned out to be a vain attempt. Instead of intimidating the demolishers, it pushed him to a dead-end. With the intruders shouting "light up", the poor man set himself on fire, his wife recalled.