99/6-Jallianwala Bagh massacre

एक दुखी परिवार-99/6

Consequential escalation of violence

On 10 April 1919, there was a protest at the residence of the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, a city in Punjab, a large province in the northwestern part of India. The demonstration was to demand the release of two popular leaders of theIndian Independence Movement, Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew, who had been earlier arrested by the government and moved to a secret location. Both were proponents of the Satyagraha movement led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 

A military picket shot at the crowd, killing several protesters and setting off a series of violent events. 

Later the same day, several banks and other government buildings, including the Town Hall and the railway station, were attacked and set afire. 

The violence continued to escalate, culminating in the deaths of at least five Europeans, including government employees and civilians. 

There was retaliatory shooting at crowds from the military several times during the day, and between eight and twenty people were killed.

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