This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 100 years in 2019 Apology from British Government
On April 13 1919, thousands of people gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh (garden) near the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The date was for the Baisakhi festival which was also the Sikh new year. For more than two hundred years, this festival had drawn thousands from all over India.
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The massacre resulted in the death of a lot of innocent people, who were predominantly Sikhs who had assembled to celebrate the Baisakhi festival. Many people were also seriously injured.
General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire without any warning and after blocking all the exits to the park. He reasoned that this act was to punish the Indians for holding a meeting by disobeying the British orders. He also stated that he intended to create a feeling of terror throughout the state of Punjab.
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