MY TRIBUTES TO THE MARTYRS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE MERCILESS MASSACRE OF JALLIAWALA BAGH FOR FREEDOM OF INDIA …..On 13 April 1919 , a meeting of freedom fighters was scheduled at Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar to protest against the Rowlatt Act. A large numbers of people estimated between 15000-20,000 had gathered to attend the meeting and to celebrate Baisakhi. Jallianwala Bagh derives its name from that of the owners of this piece of land. It was then the property of the family of Sardar Himmat Singh (d.1829), a noble in the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), who originally came from the village of Jalla, now in Fatehgarh Sahib district of the Punjab.
Brigadier General Regineld Edward Harry Dyer deployed 50 troopers near the entrance of the Jallianwala Bagh and without warning or orders to disperse, he opened fire which continued 20 minutes. His contingent, comprising of 50 personnel of 29th Gurkhas, the 54th Sikhs and the 59th Sindh rifles, fired 1650 rounds of 0.303 Lee Enfield rifles' mark VI ammunition. The Official figure given by the British was 379 killed and 1200 wounded from 1650 rounds fired. But the Indian National Congress said more than 1000 had died.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was a calculated move to strike terror among the masses because after 1857, the first war of Independence, the British imagined that unrest could take the shape of violence against British regime. Thus the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was accordingly both retributive and pre-emptive. Dyer also took revenge for the attacks on Europeans including Miss Sherwood, a missionary attacked in Amritsar during the riots three days earlier. Instead of having deterrent effect , the Jallianwala massacre de-facto culminated into the turning point in the Indian freedom struggle...... My Salute to the Martyrs on the 101st Anniversary of Jallianwala Saka.
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Manoranjan Kalia 
Date 13 th April 2020.