Biggest Massacre in the Indian History: Jallianwala Bagh

Jallianwala Bagh noted for its most notorious massacre under British rule. It is 400meters north of the Golden Temple. The British General Dyer was the Lieutenant Governor of the province in 1919. He banned all meetings and demonstrations led by Indians against the economical set back by World War I. On 13 April 1919, pilgrims poured into Amritsar to celebrate the Baisakhi festival, one of most auspicious festival of Sikh. In the afternoon thousands of people gathered at JallianWala Bagh to celebrate the festival. This ground is surrounded by high walls on all sides has only a narrow alley for access. General Dyer personally led the troops to the sight and ordered 50 soldiers to fire into the gathering, and for 10 to 15 minutes 1,650 rounds of ammunition were unloaded into the screaming, terrified crowd, some of whom were trampled by those desperately trying to escape. It resulted in the death of about 2000 people including women and children.

Even though the crowd was totally unarmed, General Dyer claimed that he was attacked by a revolutionary army. He made it clear that he had gone to the place with the with a plan of opening fire upon this helpless crowd.He even said that he would have used the machine-guns on this helpless crowd, but could not do so because he could not move them to position via the narrow passage that led to the place of gathering.

It was clear that he had trespassed all norms of humanity, was also asked to resign from his position in India, yet he was greatly honored when he reached Britain. A very large sum of money and much honor was also given to him. This only made the Indians more committed to their cause to get freedom from Britain. Finally on 15th August 1947 India became a nation free from the rule of Britian.

I Salute to each and every Martyr of this Massacre!

Bit jaaye chahe kitne mausam, Bite chahe kitne naye zamaane; Yeh dil naa bhula hai naa bhulega un shaheedon ko jinho ne dekar apne pran, pehnaya humare desh ko Azaadi ka sehra!



Jai Hind!