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100 years since Amritsar Massacre - Kyng - 04-13-2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/13/uk-deeply-regrets-amritsar-massacre-but-no-official-apology-india

Britain’s high commissioner to India has laid a wreath to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of Britain’s colonial rule.

On 13 April 1919, British troops fired on thousands of unarmed men, women and children in the northern city of Amritsar. Colonial-era records put the death toll at 379, but Indian figures say the number was closer to 1,000.

A hundred years later, Britain has still made no official apology and high commissioner Dominic Asquith followed suit at the Jallianwala Bagh walled garden, where bullet marks from the event are still visible. “You might want to rewrite history but you can’t,” he said. “What you can do, as the Queen said, is to learn the lessons of history. We will never forget what happened here.”

In the memorial’s guest book Asquith, a descendant of Herbert Asquith, prime minister from 1908 to 1916, called the events “shameful”.

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Whatever the actual death toll was, the fact remains that this was a horrendous atrocity - and one that doesn't get enough attention here. During my school education, I was never taught about it at any time.

We need to apologise for this - and it boggles my mind that we never have .

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RE: 100 years since Amritsar Massacre - Moonshroom - 04-13-2019

Very well-said, man.

Britain has a lot to apologize for and they better get at it soon.

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RE: 100 years since Amritsar Massacre - Jarkko - 04-13-2019

Completely agreed. Of course, it didn't help that Canada turned down the Komagata Maru (a boatload of Sikhs fleeing persecution) in around the same time as well.

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