Jallianwalla Bagh

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 Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted about 10 minutes and 1600 rounds were fired. Official sources placed the casualties at 379. According to private sources, the number was over 1000, with more than 2000 wounded,[1] and Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that they were over 1800

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[rosemarykelley100]

Disgraceful. Dishonorable. Inexcusable. 

[Lab356]

This was a disgrace, Reginald Dyer should've been put on trial and executed. However, all this talk of revenge is wrong, I doubt Gandhi would agree with such talk, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

[AtheismMakesSense1]

@Harshamostwanted1 revenge means even more bloodshed... and the people responsible for the Amritsar massacre are long dead. Creating another such massacre for revenge, would mean another war, and again human cruelty. I admire Gandhi for his non-violent protest and I agree that the Amritsar Massacre was horrible, awful, completely unjustified, but I think keeping hatred against an entire population is not a good idea (British citizens were outraged and revolted by the massacre as well)

[BlackCountryPuddler]

Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War at the time of the debate in the British Parliament the House of Commons, called it "an episode without precedent or parallel in the modern history of British Empire... an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which

B. G. Horniman observed: "No event within living memory, probably, has made so deep and painful impression on the mind of the public in this country (England) as what came to be known as the Amritsar massacre."[

[BlackCountryPuddler]

He poured the firepower of a whole Company of Infantry Gurkhas into an unarmed civilian crowd. Holy mother of God. May his soul never know a moments peace for the rest of eternity. One of them should have killed him.

[MrPiano90]

According to some information I've read, the family of General Dyer said upon him gasping out his last on his death bed, died of a "broken" heart in regards to his actions at the Amristar Massacre. He suffered from several strokes previous to his death,..so perhaps they were right.

[KarthikOfficial]

i hope aliens invade us at least that time we humans be together !

[kashsoldier]

don't see any difference between this massacre and mumbai massacre !!