Jallianwala Bagh December 1919
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre brought the inhuman faces of the British to the fore. British soldiers were shot on the unarmed crowd gathered in a public meeting in an almost closed field, without any warning, on the order of General Dyer, despite the restrictions, Were doing
The crowd gathered here on 13th April was opposed to the arrest of two national leaders -Syampal and Dr. Saifuddin Kichloo.
Suddenly, British army officer General Dyer ordered his army to run on the unarmed crowd without giving an opportunity to disperse, and shot and continued for 10 minutes until they were finished. In these 10 minutes, (according to the Congress calculation) one thousand people were killed and about two thousand people were injured. The marks of bullets can still be seen in the Jallianwala garden, which has now been declared a national monument. This massacre was pre-planned and General Dyer declared with pride that he did this to teach such a lesson and if he continued the gathering then he would kill them all. There was no embarrassment on her own.
When he went to England , some British gathered donations to welcome him. While some others were surprised by this heinous act of Dyer and they demanded the investigation. A Britist newspaper called it the most bloody genocide of modern history .
21 years later, on March 13, 1940, a Revolutionary Indian Udham Singh shot Michael O Dyer dead as he was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab at the time of the incident of Jallianwala massacre . The massacre filled the anger in the Indian people , which the government had to resort to vandalism again to suppress. The people of Punjab were tortured, they were kept in open cages and whipped on them. Newspapers were banned and their editors were either put in jail or were banished. The empire of a terror, as it was born during the suppression of the rebellion of 1857, was spread all around. Ravindranath Tagore returned the title of knighthood granted to him by the British . This genocide proved to be a turning point in the history of india freedom struggle.
The congressional session was held in Amritsar in December 1919. A large number of people including the farmers took part in it. It is clear that this massacre worked as a ghee in the fire and strengthened the urge to oppose repression and freedom in the people.
