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The Jallianwala Bagh site is witness to one of the most brutal incidents that took place during the Indian freedom struggle. On the day of Baishaki, on 13th April 1919 around 10,000 people had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to protest peacefully against the oppressive Rowllat Act. General Dyer ordered his army of 150 soldiers to open fire at the crowd. As the only exit point was blocked and the walls of the park were beyond the reach of the people, the innocent people were trapped helplessly before the spraying bullets. After 15 minutes and 1650 rounds of firing, 400 people were killed on the spot, which included some children. The 1500 wounded people were left to die in the pool of their own blood.
After independence, in around 1961, a large flame shaped memorial was built in the Jallianwala Bagh. This 45 foot red stone pillar was erected to pay homage to those thousands of innocent and helpless people.
The Jallianwala Bagh site is witness to one of the most brutal incidents that took place during the Indian freedom struggle. On the day of Baishaki, on 13th April 1919 around 10,000 people had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to protest peacefully against the oppressive Rowllat Act. General Dyer ordered his army of 150 soldiers to open fire at the crowd. As the only exit point was blocked and the walls of the park were beyond the reach of the people, the innocent people were trapped helplessly before the spraying bullets. After 15 minutes and 1650 rounds of firing, 400 people were killed on the spot, which included some children. The 1500 wounded people were left to die in the pool of their own blood.
The park is a memorial site now to pay homage to those thousands of innocent and helpless people.
The Martyr's Well into which many people jumped and drowned attempting to save themselves from the bullets is also a protected monument inside the park.
The crowded street leading to the Golden Temple in Amritsar with the Jallianwala Bagh on the other side. There is a constant throng of devotees towards the shrine, and with shops on either side including many toy shops and catering to children. There are vendors selling posters and wall hangings of Sikh gurus and others.
The Golden Temple is one of the most famous monuments in Amritsar, in the state of Punjab in North India. It is the spiritiual headquarters of the Sikh religion, and is a very well visited place. Besides Sikhs, people from other religions visit the temple, it being an open place. The temple is also referred to as the Harmandir Sahib or the Darbar Sahib, and was built during the 16th century by the fifth Sikh Guru (completed in the year 1604), Guru Arjan Dev around a holy tank. Earlier to this, in 1577, the fourth Guru, Guru Ram Das ji excavated a tank which came to be known as Amritsar. The Harmandir Sahib symbolizes openess, and has four doors to depict the same. Over a period of time, modifications were done, such as the layering of gold over the dome by the ruler of the time, Maharajah Ranjit Singh.
The holy nature of the Golden Temple is also symbolized by the presence of the Holy Book of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib. The central structure of the Gurudwara is surrounded by a holy tank of water, with a causeway over this body of water. There are some restrictions for entering the site, such as the removal of shoes before entering (and washing ones feet in a small pool of water as well), covering the hair through a scarf or some other cloth, and ensuring that they show proper respect towards the central shrine.
The Golden Temple is also the location for a major military operation (Operation Blue Star in 1984), where the Indian Army went in against Sikh militants lead by Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale inside the compound of the Golden Temple, with bullets and even machine guns inside the compound. The operation was a major operation, with the death of more than 500 people reported (including soldiers, militants and civilians). It was also very controversial, since this was seen as an attack on the spiritual center of Sikhs, and lead to some desertions in the army, and also an attack on the Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, by her own Sikh bodyguards which resulted in her death.
The Jallianwala Bagh site is witness to one of the most brutal incidents that took place during the Indian freedom struggle. On the day of Baishaki, on 13th April 1919 around 10,000 people had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to protest peacefully against the oppressive Rowllat Act. General Dyer ordered his army of 150 soldiers to open fire at the crowd. As the only exit point was blocked and the walls of the park were beyond the reach of the people, the innocent people were trapped helplessly before the spraying bullets. After 15 minutes and 1650 rounds of firing, 400 people were killed on the spot, which included some children. The 1500 wounded people were left to die in the pool of their own blood.
The park is a memorial site now to pay homage to those thousands of innocent and helpless people.
The Martyr's Well into which many people jumped and drowned attempting to save themselves from the bullets is also a protected monument inside the park.
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar Wednesday 20 February 2013. Follow us on twitter @UKinIndia
Brigadier-General Dyer incharge of Amritsar had, issued a proclamation prohibiting meetings and processions in the town. Jallianwala Bagh was an open enclosure with tall buildings on all the four sides with a narrow passage which led into it. It is said that about 25000 men, women and children had gathered to participate in a protest meeting against Rowlatt Act. They included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. General Dyer appeared on the scene with his armed troops and without any warning ordered firing, aimed at dispersing the crowd though he had blocked the only exit of enclosure. With escape route unavailable, there was a general stampede. Old men, women and children got crushed under those who trying to escape firing. To escape bullets many jumped to death in an open well now known as Martyr’s well.120dead bodies were later recovered from this well.General. Dyer left the ghastly scene along with his troops after they had exhausted their ammunition. Far from attending to the wounded, there was none to offer even water to the dying. According to the official version, 379 people were killed on the spot and thrice as many wounded to die later. The unofficial number of the dead runs into four figures.
Brigadier-General Dyer incharge of Amritsar had, issued a proclamation prohibiting meetings and processions in the town. Jallianwala Bagh was an open enclosure with tall buildings on all the four sides with a narrow passage which led into it. It is said that about 25000 men, women and children had gathered to participate in a protest meeting against Rowlatt Act. They included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. General Dyer appeared on the scene with his armed troops and without any warning ordered firing, aimed at dispersing the crowd though he had blocked the only exit of enclosure. With escape route unavailable, there was a general stampede. Old men, women and children got crushed under those who trying to escape firing. To escape bullets many jumped to death in an open well now known as Martyr’s well.120dead bodies were later recovered from this well.General. Dyer left the ghastly scene along with his troops after they had exhausted their ammunition. Far from attending to the wounded, there was none to offer even water to the dying. According to the official version, 379 people were killed on the spot and thrice as many wounded to die later. The unofficial number of the dead runs into four figures.
So here we are, walking down the narrow passage into the Jallianwala Bagh memorial garden. (yes, the site of the massacre is now a garden). The recent renovations have killed the effect somewhat but it is good to spruce up the place a bit as well as a mark of respect to those killed in the senseless shooting. (see previous pictures for more notes about the carnage). Apart from pilgrims, Amritsar had filled up over the preceding days with farmers, traders and merchants attending the annual Baisakhi horse and cattle fair. The city police closed the fair at 14:00 that afternoon, resulting in a large number of people drifting into the Jallianwala Bagh. It was estimated that about 20,000 to 25,000 people had gathered in the Bagh by the time of the meeting. Dyer sent an aeroplane to overfly the Bagh (garden) and estimate the size of the crowd. By this time, both Colonel Dyer and Deputy Commissioner Irving, the senior civil authority for Amritsar, were well aware of the meeting, but took no actions to prevent it or send police to peacefully disperse the crowds. This would later be a serious criticism leveled at both Dyer and Irving. See earlier captions for more details of the massacre. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
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11 , k.olkilta allr ha\ mg been shot rn hrs stomach. GeetanJoh ')0 . d . t till the time of writing this report five days away from the goons and i1ad been mcrcrlessly htt on her he~d_wrth a latht. Incr cnta11y, at 1cas . visrl ertl.'"'r th~ roving false the contention of the state gove~nme~t t~at.the pollee merely fired in self defence and not to kill. In fact corroborating the villagl!rs' accounts, the CBI mtenm fm dngs as on 18/03/07 have clearly indicated the presence of 'outsiders' who took part in th e so-c~.lled operat?n and have also rule? out the Left Front's theory that the firing was just ir;t self defence. Home Min1stcr ShtvraJ Patti~ sl?'-ement tn Parltamcnt based o~ 1.1pub from the west Bengal government did not mentton any presence of Mao1st;; ~n the: area, thus ~allmg 11e bluff of t_he CPI(M) on thts dc:_ounl too. The ar-rest of 10 CPI(M) activists along with 22 rifles and stockpiles of ammunitiOn as well as pollee helmets t.o.o cat....hes the state government on the back-foot as it had been repeatedly claiming that the 'resisters ' had been stockp1lmg arms. .
Instead it shows that it was the CPI(M) who had been stockpiling arms and ammunition and police uniforms. 'we found that the villagers were mentally prepared to suffer even more but were resolute in their demand that .
Lakshman seth and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee sh ould be han ged for their crimes. In fact, in all the three places that we IISited, two statements kept nngrng rn our cars because almost everyone we met repeatedly told us the same thing. At every place ·:ve nere told that young children and bab1es were torn from therr limbs and buried rn the sand or tn·r:>vm rnto the nver and secondly almost P.ver10ne we met kept repe::atrng that they would not rest unttl Buddhadeb Bhattachar:Jee and Lak5hman Seth were made to pay for the1r s1ns. After vrs1ting Nandigrcun. the tca"ll qot a first l·and prcture of the extent of the brutalrty of tne CPI(M) acttvrsts/pollce under CPI(r-1) contro1, and of the 'new and rmproved', l_('ft Front Government m Ch1ef t.,tnister Buddhadeb Bhattachaqee's self-declared 'shant1r morudya'1 .: oasts o" .
peace). The Nandig ram Massacre For the last few months Singur and Nandigram have become by words for the Left Front Government in West B~ngal's reign of terror and crony capitalism. Whtle Singur, which was at one trrne tr.o second most ferttle and agr.culturally produ.:t ve administrative block in undivrded Bengal, was chosen for a Tata Motors car factory dr:>r".:!gardrng the objections of the locals and the l~rrners who owned a1d cu trvated the land, Nandtgram was chosen to be handed over for SE:Z to the Salrm Group of lndonesra. In b0th cases. there was no ae=cmr at urderstanding tr.e causes of obJeCtions, no attempt to address the grievances of locals and farmers a'1d no attempts to take Pto co. 1:; dcrat1on the views of experts on agriculture, economrcs etc. dpart from a few sycophants. Instead, the focus \':as .
always on police a"" Scpt.:~rnber 200G ar.d 2nd December 2006 will go down as black days in the history of West Senoa1 a:; r-.~ 1'lOTr these day:> o.:>~i. ~ ·.::::o!: :..:1~ ~:::shed o~ :.:,suspcctir:g <t,~ oea-.::c-r,,::y ~..otcs!:;nc;, ~--~asa... ls 10 :::,mg~r an::i the .exttn~ of t h:: ;,oi.c~ :..-: utdi1ty to~··. ~:-ate:.:..-;-; as w ell as media and others by surprise. The 2" .
peasants 'nduding "''=r:1\:n, children and old people In fact all peasants ial Singur from .13e 7 to 90 were brutally be.lt~n u· police wit'1 lathis. ;:.. r".:w aays after this incident, to ~each the pote$1..ers ~ lesso.l, a young 18-year old girl who W.JS act'l~ a.""long t~.c rcs:ste·s, :-.z;:>as: ~..,aiik, w:1s raped and ki:led by ~1'1-: CPI(t-1). .
TaVulg ;:) .esso~. rrof"'' what happened tn Stngu". the ;)eople of t,,andlgram u')der·.;ta;'ld )UI f l')'-'lo.:atej \'itl(::1, Ill DeCC'i""lb'.:!:-2·::!0-s. ~ ncttce fron~ ~r,e H<31d ~ Dcv,;:iopmen~ Author t, ('-iDA) was ISS .ed ~ (~ ~ Vlilcl';l'~ pd'l"th'lj'c)~. The r~-::oole ;1f N?~nd gram bloc~ cut off t~t:> ,~,Jproacr> r,3d:; 'e 1d1:-tq t, thetr ;1tdqe,; f~;J'tn.:) a 3 tf1gur·!l:c ~n3c~· or ~t"1t:: the CPl(M) and the s~ate ;::01 C.P. G··rng vC'nt to thcrr act1on aqJmst :."le CPf(r1J or.d '-iDA o-cMP1a 1 L ~·.3r;T1an :3-=::,, the,, ;-a"sac~cd ~1-Jc :_::c: .
C:JI(M) office ho!d1ng rnem responsthle for tl1e acquis1t1on ;~·jtru::. !ncerscd at ttl s opcr· deft:~rr:c o~ the CPI;i':) w1 \'/est Be·1s.!. ·:~te-a-· C0mmunist l~aaers ··<e Benoy Konar m~de open ~hreats and statem~?n::s to rncrte ··~pno;()IS. Korar on b ' L1n-.:ary 2007 stated that ·Jur 0'f·::e nas been attackee ,}nj ·:Je h1ve to tald. On r·· Janu;Jry 20'17 ~J;m.j gram was at.ac-<~d t)\' rhe ":Pit·-~ cadre and pol1ce dr.G si.t vrlla]:!'~ v'JUe kolled tn the attack. l here was unprec-=d;ntcd vt~:dt:nc.:-J"\ 1 1···.;or .:~nd ir-so te ·:..-:ne or-=sci'Ce o" ~n·.= .
police behind it, the CPf(r1J cadre 'Jere unable to 'capture and hold ..:1 r.o N-Jt1d19r Hl1 111 ~l1..: h .e vi tn.! urm~d res;st~:~ce u~ U'~ ,J~o... \!. Faced wtth this vtc.lenc'=!. Chtef l"''tntsrer BLrddhadeb Bhattacharjee appdrently IJ<Kktr<ICi<:ed anri Jeciared that the not1ce should D..:! torn u;; .Jnd said that there would be no land acqutsttion tf the people of Nand,gram did not vVdllt 1t. .
However an-o;p;te of the CM'-; statement, th·~ Salim group spok.;srt1EH1 Prasu11 1'11JkiH'rJ~t? r"'lle-1ted ~l,at the pr 0JCCL was very n''.JCi on and the HD.A. Crlc:Hrman Lakshman Seth also declared that the r'hndigrom SF? would be defmttely set up' After a relative calm and ma1ntenance of status .::.uo for more tha11 two months, on 14'r. March 2007 at lO.Jm, a 3000 strong conttngent of state pol1ce rernforced by CPI(M) cadre in poltce uruform attackecl :he vttlagers ftrtng tndrscrim~r~ately dl women and chilrlren \\lth an a1m to kill. D~rtr,g the opcr.;: vn, as has been exposed by the indepcndenr rncdra dnd also corr obordted hy tnt Prvlews token by the At3VP state,le,·el team ,... ,,~n . 2nt ~0 r .;·: "11C area on 17'~ 1·1arc.'l :~007, few month o:d balm~s were snolctl~d and ltterctlly torn antJ t11ro\'Jn 111 the nver, .vomen ~-,ere rr~pcj (t1l~S 'a::; :tlso been cr~rroboratf'O ~,y th..:! team) and about 150 persons (th1s uas StrllCd by th..:! ""'-"~ JC~$ ti10th)h the tcat'l cou10 'A ,0rr0bora·..:: :'1deoendently) ar~ stil' rr -:;-;rng This mass murder has been likened to the Left Front Government's Jallianwala 8agh. The offictal version says 14 people have been killed though independent reports say at least 150 have ~een k illed. Effects of t he incident .
. Genocice in Nandigram has invited countrywide angry react1on even among the leftist intellectuals. They~ have res~gned from the various inst1tut1ons funded by Govt. of West Bengal. From West Bengal State Natya Academy many emment Bengali dramatists have resigned like Brattya Basu, Kausik Sen, MegnC"dh Bhattar.haryya, Bivas Chaf<raborty, Chandan "N,, Monoj f'w1itra, Ashok ~' '"h=rje<e etc. Among them some are long t un e supporters and members of CPI(M). In the :.:.:::. ge~cral ei~ction many of them took part in propagating CPI(M) election manifesto. From Bangala academy distinguished Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh (Vice President), Asru Kumar Sikdar etc. and from Nandan Samaskriti Kendra writer samik Bandop~ddhyay etc. resig ned. Even aw ards given by State Govt. have been return..·rf by historian Su mit Sarkar , Tanika Sarkar, Suk~mari Bhatterjee, writer Amarendra Chakraborty, Tarun Sanyal , Alok Sari(ar etc. Eminent writers Maheswata Oevi, Nabamta Deb Sen, poet Joy Goswaml, film director Goutam Ghosh, drama-dil ector Shaonli Mitra, Rudra Prasad Sengupta, Mt ist Subhaprasanna etc. took part m Padaytttras, Seminars vehem<"ntly protec;ting against mass killing of poor .
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ABVP call upon al! the nationalist and democratic minded students cf JNU to rafly behind ABVP and defeat the divisive, un-democrat ic, anti-po or and anti-farmer and anti -nationdl designs of the CPM-SFI. .
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A mural of the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. Click the link for information about what happened - the page also has another mural/painting of the horrific incident.
Sadly, we didn't take pictures of the bullet holes.. or of the well. Waheguru.. If I recall correctly, 170 bodies were taken from that well. Waheguruu..
Sorry that I'm intruding in the picture guys.. Papa Ji was intent on getting at least afew pictures of me someplace, to show that I was actually there or something.. and he didn't take one without me in it..
Hey look, someone ripped off Dyer's face =].
Muchachos sij sacándose una foto en el Jallianwala Bagh, en Amritsar (Punjab, India), 2011.
Sikh boys taking a picture in Jallianwala Bagh, in Amritsar (Punjab, India), 2011.
Maturing casks waiting to be filled with spirits at Mohan Meakin's Distillery, Kasauli. The distillery was first established in 1855 by Mr. Dyer, the father of the infamous Lt. Gen. Dyer who ordered the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919
Brigadier-General Dyer incharge of Amritsar had, issued a proclamation prohibiting meetings and processions in the town. Jallianwala Bagh was an open enclosure with tall buildings on all the four sides with a narrow passage which led into it. It is said that about 25000 men, women and children had gathered to participate in a protest meeting against Rowlatt Act. They included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. General Dyer appeared on the scene with his armed troops and without any warning ordered firing, aimed at dispersing the crowd though he had blocked the only exit of enclosure. With escape route unavailable, there was a general stampede. Old men, women and children got crushed under those who trying to escape firing. To escape bullets many jumped to death in an open well now known as Martyr’s well.120dead bodies were later recovered from this well.General. Dyer left the ghastly scene along with his troops after they had exhausted their ammunition. Far from attending to the wounded, there was none to offer even water to the dying. According to the official version, 379 people were killed on the spot and thrice as many wounded to die later. The unofficial number of the dead runs into four figures.
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar Wednesday 20 February 2013. Follow us on twitter @UKinIndia
British Prime Minister David Cameron visited the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar Wednesday 20 February 2013. Follow us on twitter @UKinIndia
So here is the last bit of the grisly picture at Jallianwalla- the Martyrs' Well, now enclosed in the shrine like structure you see ahead. Many people died in stampedes at the narrow gates or by jumping into the solitary well on the compound to escape the shooting. A plaque, placed at the site after independence states that 120 bodies were removed from the well. The wounded could not be moved from where they had fallen, as a curfew was declared, and many more died during the night. For detailed notes about the Jallaianwala Bagh massacre see earlier pictures in this album. (see preceding images) (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
Brigadier-General Dyer incharge of Amritsar had, issued a proclamation prohibiting meetings and processions in the town. Jallianwala Bagh was an open enclosure with tall buildings on all the four sides with a narrow passage which led into it. It is said that about 25000 men, women and children had gathered to participate in a protest meeting against Rowlatt Act. They included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. General Dyer appeared on the scene with his armed troops and without any warning ordered firing, aimed at dispersing the crowd though he had blocked the only exit of enclosure. With escape route unavailable, there was a general stampede. Old men, women and children got crushed under those who trying to escape firing. To escape bullets many jumped to death in an open well now known as Martyr’s well.120dead bodies were later recovered from this well.General. Dyer left the ghastly scene along with his troops after they had exhausted their ammunition. Far from attending to the wounded, there was none to offer even water to the dying. According to the official version, 379 people were killed on the spot and thrice as many wounded to die later. The unofficial number of the dead runs into four figures.
Brigadier-General Dyer incharge of Amritsar had, issued a proclamation prohibiting meetings and processions in the town. Jallianwala Bagh was an open enclosure with tall buildings on all the four sides with a narrow passage which led into it. It is said that about 25000 men, women and children had gathered to participate in a protest meeting against Rowlatt Act. They included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. General Dyer appeared on the scene with his armed troops and without any warning ordered firing, aimed at dispersing the crowd though he had blocked the only exit of enclosure. With escape route unavailable, there was a general stampede. Old men, women and children got crushed under those who trying to escape firing. To escape bullets many jumped to death in an open well now known as Martyr’s well.120dead bodies were later recovered from this well.General. Dyer left the ghastly scene along with his troops after they had exhausted their ammunition. Far from attending to the wounded, there was none to offer even water to the dying. According to the official version, 379 people were killed on the spot and thrice as many wounded to die later. The unofficial number of the dead runs into four figures.
Monumento en memoria de la Masacre del Jallianwala Bagh (en la que los soldados ingleses mataron a centenares de civiles de la religión Sij en 1919) en Amritsar (Punjab, India), 2011.
Monument in memory of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (in which British soldiers killed hundreds of sikh civilians in 1919 ) in Amritsar (Punjab, India), 2011.
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, and Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that they were over 1800.
Jallianwala Bagh
Site of a British massacre (?) in 1919 where somewhere between 350 and 1,000 people died when they opened up fire
We have seen the Jallianwala Bagh in some detail now. As we walk down the path towards the exit, we turn around to get one last far shot of the Jallianwalla memorial obelisk, just as we exit the garden. For detailed notes about the Jallaianwala Bagh massacre see earlier pictures in this album. (see preceding images) (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
The Jallianwala Bagh site is witness to one of the most brutal incidents that took place during the Indian freedom struggle. On the day of Baishaki, on 13th April 1919 around 10,000 people had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to protest peacefully against the oppressive Rowllat Act. General Dyer ordered his army of 150 soldiers to open fire at the crowd. As the only exit point was blocked and the walls of the park were beyond the reach of the people, the innocent people were trapped helplessly before the spraying bullets. After 15 minutes and 1650 rounds of firing, 400 people were killed on the spot, which included some children. The 1500 wounded people were left to die in the pool of their own blood.
The park is a memorial site now to pay homage to those thousands of innocent and helpless people.
In April of 1919 the British had martial law in India that no more than 5 people gather as for concern of rebellion against the British occupiers. Ofcorse the British had every right to be concerned because they did not belong in India and had trespassed onto a sovereign state. Ofcorse the celebration of Baisakhi Day in Jallianwala Bagh Square, Amritsar is a tradition held by Sikhs and their British subjegaters were not too happy about this gathering by 1000s of Punjabis where Reginald Dyer and 90 of his men showed up and cold bloodily killed 100s and maimed 1000s in one of the worst and most brutal massacres ever on Earth. Even worse Reginald Dyer confined the people barely alive and wounded in the square were they could not escape or get medical attention. He later lied to his superiors telling them there was going to be a rebellion and this was to teach the people a lesson to suppress rebellion of corse there was no rebellion at all. When he finally told the truth he had no remorse at all. Reginald Dyer received little if no punishment from the British high command and was demoted to colonel. When I visited the memorial in Amritsar and stood before the very well that over a 150 people perished in to escape the wave of death that Reginald Dyer had engaged in a land not his, saw all the bullet holes and felt the horror and saw this very mural showing the massacre I was horrified to tears.
The Jallianwala Bagh site is witness to one of the most brutal incidents that took place during the Indian freedom struggle. On the day of Baishaki, on 13th April 1919 around 10,000 people had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh to protest peacefully against the oppressive Rowllat Act. General Dyer ordered his army of 150 soldiers to open fire at the crowd. As the only exit point was blocked and the walls of the park were beyond the reach of the people, the innocent people were trapped helplessly before the spraying bullets. After 15 minutes and 1650 rounds of firing, 400 people were killed on the spot, which included some children. The 1500 wounded people were left to die in the pool of their own blood.
The park is a memorial site now to pay homage to those thousands of innocent and helpless people.