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Location of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919 in Amritsar, India (3)
Location of the massacre of Indians in India by the occupying colonialist British Government. Winston Churchill reported nearly 400 slaughtered, and three or four times the number wounded to the Westminster Parliament, on 8 July 1920. Some estimates put the number of Indian civilians killed on that day by the British police at more than 1500.
There was a well, into which hundreds of people jumped and drowned. They jumped into the well trying to escape the British police gunfire. But the poor folks died by drowning in the well. Hundreds died. 120 drowned bodies were recovered from the well.
Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons debate of 8 July 1920, said "The crowd was unarmed, except with bludgeons. It was not attacking anybody or anything ... When fire had been opened upon it to disperse it, it tried to run away. Pinned up in a narrow place considerably smaller than Trafalgar Square, with hardly any exits, and packed together so that one bullet would drive through three or four bodies, the people ran madly this way and the other. When the fire was directed upon the centre, they ran to the sides. The fire was then directed to the sides. Many threw themselves down on the ground, the fire was then directed down on the ground. This was continued to 8 to 10 minutes, and it stopped only when the ammunition had reached the point of exhaustion."
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
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Location of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919 in Amritsar, India (3)
Location of the massacre of Indians in India by the occupying colonialist British Government. Winston Churchill reported nearly 400 slaughtered, and three or four times the number wounded to the Westminster Parliament, on 8 July 1920. Some estimates put the number of Indian civilians killed on that day by the British police at more than 1500.
There was a well, into which hundreds of people jumped and drowned. They jumped into the well trying to escape the British police gunfire. But the poor folks died by drowning in the well. Hundreds died. 120 drowned bodies were recovered from the well.
Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons debate of 8 July 1920, said "The crowd was unarmed, except with bludgeons. It was not attacking anybody or anything ... When fire had been opened upon it to disperse it, it tried to run away. Pinned up in a narrow place considerably smaller than Trafalgar Square, with hardly any exits, and packed together so that one bullet would drive through three or four bodies, the people ran madly this way and the other. When the fire was directed upon the centre, they ran to the sides. The fire was then directed to the sides. Many threw themselves down on the ground, the fire was then directed down on the ground. This was continued to 8 to 10 minutes, and it stopped only when the ammunition had reached the point of exhaustion."
(From Wikipedia)
For more details on this massacre, please visit the below Wikipedia website.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
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