Tagged With "massacre"

On the 2 nights prior to the massacre, Indian Government buildings had been set on fire. Telegraph poles destroyed and railways attacked. Europeans - including a female English school teacher - had been attacked by mobs on the streets. Stripped naked, beaten and left for dead at the roadside. There were no British soldiers in the town. They were all in the mountains to escape the heat. The Ghurkhas' - Nepalese Soldiers - were trying to enforce the curfew that had been imposed following the...

DrFumblefinger completes his visit to Sweden's History Museum in Stockholm, which has a large and extensive collection.

At Jallianwala Bagh, a garden in the Punjab city of Amritsar, over 1000 unarmed people were killed by British soldiers on a sad day in 1919, and many memorials are found in Jallianwala Bagh.

Excellent article. We all need to understand and acknowledge history.