Facts regarding Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Facts regarding Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ,Amritsar was a important incident in the history of Indian freedom movement .

  • On April 13,1919, number of people had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar for attending the annual Baisakhi fair,
  • General Dyer surrounded the park and opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds of people
  • The shooting was continued for ten minutes and killed thousands of innocent people including children and women. About 1650 rounds were fired.
  • According to the government data about 379 people were death. Whereas some private data showed that the numbers of death were more than 1000.
  • The incident stirred the whole nation. Many people joined the Indian freedom movement. Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood in the protest. Hunter commission was formed to investigate the incident.
  • After the incident general dyer was suspended. He returned back to Britain. Sarder Udham Singh killed dyer in London on 13 march,1940.
  • A trust was formed in 1920 by Indian national Congress to build a memorial at jalianwala bagh. In 1960, the memorial was inaugurated by Rajendra Prasad.  

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