Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 104th Anniversary: 13 April

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 104th Anniversary: 13 April

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Category : Important Days Published on: April 14 2023

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The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on April 13, 1919, in Amritsar, Punjab, India.
April 13, 2023, marks the 104th anniversary of the massacre.
On this day, British troops under the command of General Reginald Dyer fired on a crowd of unarmed Indians who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh (a public garden) to peacefully protest against the oppressive policies of the British colonial government.
The exact number of casualties is unknown, but it is believed that between 379 and 1,000 people, including women and children, were killed and more than 1,200 were injured.
After the massacre, Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood, which he had received in 1915.
Udham joined the Indian Independence Movement and revolutionary movements after witnessing the horrible murder of his siblings. He was motivated by Bhagat Singh and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) as a whole. In 1924, he joined the Ghadar Party and helped organise expatriate Indians to overthrow British colonial control in India.
After the tragedy, Sardar Udham Singh avenged his people by killing the British officer serving as Governor General of Punjab, Michael O'Dwyer.

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