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The British in 1919 were not all that progressive

Posted by Tom on 9/14/2005, 9:38:54, in reply to "Why do I keep doing this? I need to take my son to school! "
"General Dyer, the military commander of Amritsar was determined to make an example of this meeting and wanted to terrorize the people into submission. He surrounded the Bagh with his troops, closed off the exit and then ordered his soldiers to shoot into the crowd with their machine-guns and rifles.

The massacre was brutal and heartless; the trapped crowd had nowhere to run or hide. Men, women and children ran helter-skelter, some jumping into the well to escape the volley of bullets. When their ammunition was exhausted, Dyer ordered his men to leave the area, his ghastly deed done. Thousands died and many more were injured. Martial law was imposed on Punjab and its people were subjected to many humiliating atrocities. Citizens of Lahore were ordered to crawl across a street, which was nicknamed the 'Crawling Street'. The wholesale slaughter at Jallianwala Bagh horrified the whole country. The brutality of the so-called civilized foreign rulers and the need to fight for freedom were reiterated by this incident."

and I think ME countries love us in their oil--it is the fundamentalists that dislike/ are threatend by our influence and the extremeist that act on that dislike


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