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Amritsar Massacre
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Amritsar Massacre

The killing of 379 Indians (and wounding of 1,200) in Amritsar, at the site of a Sikh religious shrine in the Punjab in 1919. British troops under Gen Edward Dyer opened fire without warning on a crowd of some 10,000, assembled to protest against the arrest of two Indian National Congress leaders (see Congress Party).
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In political terms, it comes next only to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 1919.
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