BB-069 / State Terror

Jallianwala Bagh (Expanded)

1919 · Amritsar · British colonial massacre

Jallianwala Bagh (Expanded)

The Act

British troops fired on an unarmed crowd in a walled garden, killing several hundred and wounding over a thousand.

The Response

General Dyer was removed from command but not criminally prosecuted. The massacre accelerated the Indian independence movement.

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