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brefly explain about Jallianwala bagh masscray

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$\mathcal{\red{\bold{\underline{The\: Jallianwala\: Bagh\: Massacre}}}}$

• In Amritsar, two prominent leaders, Dr. Satya Pal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew were arrested under the Rowlatt Act in April, 1919.

• This led to widespread protests and the Government banned public meetings.

• There was anger among the people and few public meetings were going on, one of the important one being at Jallianwala Bagh, on the 13th of April, 1919. The day also happened to be the day of the Baisakhi festival. So, a large crowed had gathered there.

• None of the people present there knew about the ban on public meetings.

• General Reginald O' Dyer entered the place with his troops and without giving any warning, he ordered his troops to open fire.

• The place also had only one entrance and exit place, which had been locked by Dyer. Also, the walls there were very high to be crossed by the people. So, the people had no escape out of there.

• Several rounds were fired and more than a 1000 men, women and children were shot dead. (These were just official numbers, actual figures crossed much more than that)

• Many people trying to escape and save themselves jumped into a dry well but got asphyxiated.

• The well and the walls were covered with bloodstains and bullets.

• This bl**dy event was infamously called "The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre".

• This massacre shook the conscience of the nation.

• Many leaders renounced (gave back) the titles given to them in protest. Like Rabindranath Tagore gave his "knighthood", Motilal Nehru gave his "Rai Bahadur" and Gandhiji gave his "Kesar-e-hind".

• There were several protest against this event and the British imposed martial laws is Punjab

• An year and a few months after this, Gandhiji started the Non Co-operation Movement to redress the wrongs done to those people.

• A small boy at the time of the massacre is said to have vowed to kill General Dyer to take revenge of this event. In 1940, he even did so but he killed Michael O' Dyer in place of Reginald O' Dyer.

• Today, there is a monument built in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, in memory of the victims of the massacre of 1919.
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