Amritsar: April 13 is considered one of the darkest days of India’s freedom struggle. Hundreds of unsuspecting men, women, and children were killed during a peaceful gathering in Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh when British forces opened fire on them. Thousands met at a public park in Amritsar during the Baisakhi festival to attend a peaceful nationalist demonstration on April 13, 1919. What they had not imagined was that their meeting would turn into a bloodbath. The incident later came to be known as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, is considered to be a significant event of the freedom struggle.
“At the end of that massacre, 1,500 people were dead and 1,200 injured. Eventually, General Dyer was disgraced for that stain on the British Empire. In 2019, the then Prime Minister Theresa May recognised this was a stain on British colonial rule in India.
“We pay homage to the martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh. The coming generations will always remember their indomitable spirit. It was indeed a dark chapter in our nation’s history. Their sacrifice became a major turning point in India’s freedom struggle”, wrote PM Narendra Modi on X.
Remembering the greatest massacre of its time, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann wrote on X, “We remember all the martyrs of the bloody Jallianwala Bagh massacre and salute them from the bottom of our hearts. Never forget the martyrdom of these great martyrs, remember them yourself, and be sure to tell your future generations about them”.
While the day marks the darkest scar on Indians, on this day in 1997, Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. He was also the first golfer of African-American and Asian descent to win the prestigious tournament.
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