A seminar on Significance of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was held at Bharat Bhavan here on Wednesday.
The seminar was addressed by K L Tuteja. Later, a musical event was also performed by Madan Gopal and his troupe. The musical event was all about narrations of Jallianwala Bagh.
The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre or the Amritsar Massacre is one of the horrific instances of brutality by the British Raj. On the day of Baisakhi various Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were gathered at Jallianwala Bagh near Golden Temple of Amritsar on April 13, 1919.
They gathered for a meeting in protest against the arrest of two leaders.
The gates of the Jallianwala Bagh were narrow and most of them were kept permanently locked. The place was surrounded by buildings and houses and there was only one exit that was the entrance. As the meeting was on, General Dyer of British Indian Army entered the premises of the bagh with Balochi and and Gurkha soldiers.
He then orders the soldiers to fire the unarmed people which lasted for 10 minutes. There were thousands of women, children and men killed and wounded.
Some of them to escapes bullets jumped into a well, now known as martyr’s well.
This massacre is one of the most brutal of all the acts by British Raj.