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Bullet Marks Remind the Jallianwala Massacre

Apr 8, 2017Dec 22, 2020 Judhajit Roychoudhury 19 Comments

Ninety-eight years ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Indians at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (Punjab). The firing was ordered by an officer of the British colonial power, General Dyer. While the official figure for lives lost was 1,526 the actual figure was reportedly much higher.

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