Rejected petition British Govt to apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 100 years on

On 13th April 1919, a crowd of 10,000 unarmed men, women & children were gathered peacefully in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. British troops, led by General Dyer, opened fire without warning, killing hundreds of people & children as young as six months old. The British Govt has never apologised.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/246108

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 13 April 2019
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.