The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, which took place on April 13, 1919, the day of Baisakhi, after Brigadier General Edward Harry Dyer ordered 50 British Indian Army soldiers to shoot into the crowd, which was one of the darkest moments in Indian history.

Udham Singh, a member of the Ghadar Revolutionary Party, shot Colonel Reginald Dyer on March 13, 1940 in retaliation for the massacre.

Highlights

·        Shots were fired on the orders of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who was the acting Brigadier

·        He had asked his troops to shoot indiscriminately without asking the crowd to disperse

·        The site was an enclosed garden known as Jallianwala Bagh in Punjab's Amritsar

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place just 103 years ago, on April 13, 1919. Hundreds of people were killed that day by accidental gunfire by colonial forces. While Britain claims more than 300 people have died, the Congress party at the time claims that at least thousands have been killed in endless bloodshed.

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Let's look at what exactly had happened in Jallianwala Bagh 

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place just 103 years ago, on April 13, 1919.

The British introduced draconian martial law, which forbade public meetings, but the people did not know about it. That on a dark day thousands of people attended the Baisakhi Festival, which took place on April 13, 1919.

The Scots were expelled by order of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who was the incumbent brigadier general. He asked his soldiers to fire randomly without asking people to disperse. British soldiers were armed with two armoured vehicles and a machine gun, while soldiers used Scinde rifles.

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The fire continued for almost 10 to 15 minutes and nearly 1,650 bullets were fired, killing more than a thousand people.

The place where the terrible and unfortunate incident took place is an enclosed garden known as the Jallianwala bagh in Amritsar, Punjab. This event is recorded in our history as the "Amritsar Massacre".

The garden, which had become a sea of ​​the dead, was surrounded on three sides as houses were built around it. The whole garden has no exit except the main entrance. This ensures that no one can leave the area when the shooting starts.

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Domino effect

Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore refused to accept knighthood in protest of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

Mahatma Gandhi, too, returned the ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ award. 

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Outcome

Udham Singh, who was a member of the revolutionist Ghadar party, shot Colonel Reginald Dyer on March 13, 1940. Udham Singh had taken revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

The last known survivor of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Shingara Singh, passed away on June 29, 2009, at the age of 113.