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The Amritsar Massacre

Back in the day on April 13th, 1919, troops under the command of British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer opened fire on unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. The bloodshed took place in a city-park known as Jallianwala Bagh. In the days prior to the massacre, Dyer had placed Amritsar under martial law in light of increasing protests against British colonial authority. All public gatherings and meetings were to be effectively banned. Nevertheless, on the day of the massacre, Indian nationalists assembled for a protest denouncing forced conscription and war tax policies of the British. Others also gathered in the park for a religious festival as Amritsar was an important city for Sikhs. Without warning Dyer ordered fire on the crowd. But in the bloody end, at least 379 people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.

The Amritsar Massacre would have many historical repercussions including convincing Mohandas K. Gandhi that independence, and nothing less, should be the destiny of India.

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