brings light to those ignorant of their violence. When the ignorance is removed and the oppressor continues and even intensifies the action of violence, the oppressor will receive no atonement. Gandhi, always the realist, acknowledged that there are those who will persist in their violence even when they experience and begin to know satya (truth). Gandhi believed that the rejection of the martyr’s witness would lead to his or her own violent death: ‘what is gained by the sword will also be lost by