Jallian wala Bagh

Massacre

jalian wala bhag hatyakand

 WHEN AND UNDER WHOSE LEADERSHIP DID IT
TAKE PLACE?

Took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian

Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles
into a crowd of Baishakhi pilgrims, who had gathered
in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab.
The civilians had assembled to participate in the
annual Baisakhi celebrations, a religious and cultural festival
for Punjabi people and also to condemn the arrest and
deportation of two national leaders, Satya Pal and Dr Saifuddin
Kitchlew.
 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(Entry of the troops)

The Jallianwalla Bagh is a public garden of 6 to 7 acres, walled on all

sides with five entrances.
To enter, troops first blocked the entry by a tank and locked the exit.
On Dyer's orders, his troops fired on the crowd for ten minutes,
directing their bullets largely towards the few open gates through
which people were trying to flee.
 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
( Death toll and loss faced by the nation)

The British Government released figures stating 379 dead and 1,200 wounded.
Other sources place the number of dead at well over 1,000.
This "brutality stunned the entire nation",resulting in a "wrenching loss of faith"
of the general public in the intentions of the UK.
The ineffective inquiry and the initial accolades for Dyer by the House of Lords
fuelled widespread anger, leading to the Non-cooperation Movement of 1920–
22.
 The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(The well in which the people jumped)

Apart from the many deaths directly from the shooting, a

number of people died in stampedes at the narrow gates or
by jumping into the solitary well on the compound to escape
the shooting. A plaque in the monument at the site, set up
after independence, says that 120 bodies were pulled out of
the well.