JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE (AMRITSAR MASSACRE)

April 7, 2019

April 13, 2019 marks 100 years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre when Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire at a crowd of more than 20,000 people who had gathered at Jallianwala Bagh on Baisakhi day.

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April 13, 2019 was day of Baisakhi.
Micheal Dwyer was Lieutenant governor of Punjab at that time and Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, 55, was incharge of the Amritsar city, who issued an order prohibiting public meetings and assemblies.
People were unaware of this new rule and gathered peacefully at an enclosure called the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar for two purpose –
- Celebrating Baisakhi and
- Protesting against arrests of their 2 leaders (satyapal and saiffuddin kitchew) who were arrested for demonstrating and inciting masses against Rowlett act.
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, 55, commanding a regiment of 50 Gurkha and Baluchi riflemen, got angry and ordered firing without warning upon an unarmed crowd of over 15,000 Indians gathered at Jallianwala Bagh.
According to government estimates 379 people were killed, but according to historians, actually over 1,000 were killed.