Freedom's Catalyst

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, also known as the Amritsar Massacre, was named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children.

The shooting lasted about 10 minutes, official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379. According to other sources there were over 1000 deaths, with more than 2000 wounded.The Jallianwala Bagh was surrounded on all sides by houses and buildings and had few narrow entrances, most of which were kept locked. Unable to escape people tried to climb the walls of the park. Many jumped into a well inside the compound to escape from the bullets. A plaque in the monument says that 120 bodies were plucked out of the well.

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[andayss]

Thanks a billion ,my dad visited this memorial may be around 1965,we have the pictures back home,he was a cycling coach for the railways,anyway in the movie "Gandhi" it was shown so clearlly...........but again in the 80's the west motivated to uproot this great "Sikh Religion" with the help of our neighboring country and ultimately killed thousands of people which include Indhira Ghandhi,,,such a peacefull religion but they mislead the youth,never mislead the youth,,,thanks