The notorious Gen. Dayer entered with his army through this passage
The notorious Gen. Dayer entered with his army through this passage. (see previous and subsequent captions for what this is all about). The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April, 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired machine guns into a crowd of unarmed protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. The civilians, in the majority Sikhs, had assembled to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations, a religious and cultural festival for Punjabi people and also to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew. Coming from outside the city, many may have been unaware of the imposition of martial law in the city, and hence the gathering. The British, and Gen Dayer in particular, was furious about what he deemed to be an unlawful gathering of a large number of civilians despite the ban, and so decided to 'teach them a lesson' by gunning them down. A shameful act by an individual, which even had the British occupiers hang their heads in shame. But Dayer got off fairly lightly in the end.(Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
The notorious Gen. Dayer entered with his army through this passage
The notorious Gen. Dayer entered with his army through this passage. (see previous and subsequent captions for what this is all about). The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April, 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired machine guns into a crowd of unarmed protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. The civilians, in the majority Sikhs, had assembled to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations, a religious and cultural festival for Punjabi people and also to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew. Coming from outside the city, many may have been unaware of the imposition of martial law in the city, and hence the gathering. The British, and Gen Dayer in particular, was furious about what he deemed to be an unlawful gathering of a large number of civilians despite the ban, and so decided to 'teach them a lesson' by gunning them down. A shameful act by an individual, which even had the British occupiers hang their heads in shame. But Dayer got off fairly lightly in the end.(Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)