JALLIANWALA BAGH MEMORIAL THIS IS THE JALLIANWALA BAGH MEMORIAL BUILT, IN AMRITSAR PUNJAB, TO MARK THE DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOT DOWN ON THE ORDERS OF GENERAL ( TEMPORARY BRIGADIER GENERAL) REGINALD EDWARD HARRY DYER ON 13TH APRIL 1919, BAISAKHI DAY. A FLAME WAS ADDED LATER ON WHICH BURNS

THIS IS THE WELL IN WHICH PEOPLE JUMPED IN TO SAVE THEIR LIVES WHEN SHOT UPON IN JALLIANWALA BAGH. GURKHA AND BALUCHI SOLDIERS WERE CALLED UPON TO FIRE ON THE PEOPLE.

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GENERAL REGINALD EDWARD HARRY DYER TEMPORARY BRIGADIER GENERAL ‘THE BUTCHER OF AMRITSAR’

BRITISH LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB MICHAEL O D’WYER WHO ORDERED THE FIRING IN JALLIANWALA BAGH. HE WAS KILLED BY SHAHEED UDHAM SINGH, AT CAXTON HALL IN LONDON IN 1940 TO TAKE REVENGE OF THE SANCTIONING OF THE ORDER TO FIRE ON THE GATHERING IN JALLIANWALA BAGH

Events at the Jallianwala Bagh. Two of the freedom fighters Dr. Satyapal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew had been arrested by the police and jailed on 9th April 1919. To protest the crowd in Punjab became angry and turned violent on the 10th of April destroying property, looting and burning building, shops and targeting British people demanding the release of these two leaders. 11th April was declared as curfew and martial law was declared. General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer was given the command of Punjab. On 13th April 1919 a peaceful crowd gathered in Jallianwala Bagh,Amritsar, Punjab.

General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on the innocent people who had gathered there. Official figures say 379 to 400 people were killed, while the unofficial figures reveal a thousand people dead. Innocent men, women, children and old men were mowed down in the opening fire. It was a shameful deed which made Rabindranath Tagore return his knighthood to the British on 30th May 1919. British set up Hunter Commission to look into the disaster and found General Dyer to be guilty. He was relieved of his command a year later, but people in Britain collected money as donation to honour him.

The report concluded that: Lack of notice to disperse from the Bagh in the beginning was an error. The length of firing showed a grave error. Dyer's motive of producing a sufficient moral effect was to be condemned. Dyer had overstepped the bounds of his authority. There had not been any conspiracy to overthrow British rule in the Punjab The minority report of the Indian members further added that: Proclamations banning public meetings were insufficiently distributed. There were innocent people in the crowd, and there had not been any violence in the Bagh beforehand. Dyer should have either ordered his troops to help the wounded or instructed the civil authorities to do so Dyer's actions had been "inhuman and un-British" and had greatly injured the image of British rule in India.

Dr. Satyapal and Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew who led the non violent Satyagraha in Amritsar , Punjab at the call of Mahatma Gandhi.

Shaheed Udham Singh who shot and killed the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, Michael O D’wyer who had signed and approved the firing upon the peaceful gathering in Jallianwala Bagh.