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About Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, otherwise called the Amritsar slaughter, occurred on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the summon of Colonel Reginald Dyer discharged rifles into a horde of Baishakhi explorers, who had assembled in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab. The regular citizens, in the larger part Sikhs, had collected to take an interest in the yearly Baisakhi festivities, a religious and social celebration for Punjabi individuals and furthermore to censure the capture and expulsion of two national pioneers, Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew.

Originating from outside the city, numerous may have been ignorant of the inconvenience of military law prior that day. The Jallianwalla Bagh is an open garden of 6 to 7 sections of land, walled on all sides, with five doors. To enter, troops initially hindered the passage by a tank and bolted the exit. On Dyer's requests, his troops shot on the group for ten minutes, coordinating their slugs to a great extent towards the few open doors through which individuals were attempting to escape.

The British Government discharged figures expressing 379 dead and 1,200 injured. Different sources put the quantity of dead at well more than 1,000. This "severity shocked the whole country", bringing about a "tweaking loss of confidence" of the overall population in the expectations of the UK. The insufficient request and the underlying honors for Dyer by the House of Lords fuelled across the board outrage, prompting the Non-collaboration Movement of 1920– 22.

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