100 years of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: The night of the dead
The mayhem unleashed by the British troops on the unarmed civilians during a peaceful gathering at Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919 remains a defining moment in the history of the Indian struggle for independence. Two Sikh historians compile accounts by 40 eyewitnesses, who lived to tell the tale.
A woman who spent the longest night of her life sitting and crying besides the body of her husband as hundreds others bloodied bodies lay scattered around her; a father who struggled to find the body of his 13-year-old son who had gone out to play with friends but was shot in the head; another man who saw a 12-year-old boy lying dead still holding tightly a 3-year old boy, probably his younger brother, in his arms; and a British missionary who was so shaken by what he saw that he felt like “taking each Englishman to the site” and show them the mayhem that the British troops led by Brigadier General Reginald Dyer had unleashed at the Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919.
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