It doesn’t excite me anymore when I’m surrounded by people saying ‘We are united.’ Some incidents from the land of the past almost convinced me why those incidents have tarnished some black stigmas in our current condition. This date today marks an engraving of the killings of more than one thousand people with no offense. I still remember my grandfather recalling those stories and telling us about the horrors Amritsar of 1919 witnessed. The incident was known as the ‘Jallianwala Bagh massacre’ today. Bloodshed was done by Indians on Indians just because they were ‘Yes Sir!’ servants of the British-Indian Army. One Englishman by the name of Col Reginald Dyer gave an order to shoot at sight all the gathered members on the day of Vaisakhi, also pronounced Baisakhi, which marks the first day of the month of Vaisakh and is seen as a spring harvest celebration primarily in Punjab and Northern India. The gathering was to mark the protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists, Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew as well as Dr. Satya Pal. The non-violent protest resulted in a big problem in the eyes of Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer, so he found out a clarified solution – Ordering Indians to kill Indians. How ridiculous it sounds that some Englishman is responsible in history for killing thousands of people, but we forgot that Dyer was in charge of 51 soldiers of the 9th Gurkha Rifles and 54th Sikhs. According to a report by The Indian Express, the 1920 report noted that Dyer entered Jallianwala Bagh with 25 Gorkha soldiers and 25 Baluchis armed with rifles, 40 Gorkhas armed only with Khukris, and two armored cars. People were madly encouraged by their sir that they didn’t realize that no one is guilty there. Dyer banned all the meetings on that Sunday, the day of the massacre when he was convinced that something big was going to happen today, but this notice wasn’t disseminated widely to the people. The celebration was being done by the villagers while the protest was going on along with it. A ban on all gatherings was justified as the reason by Dyer while he was citing onto the Bagh with the soldiers. Later, after an hour, a permanent scar was given on the Indo-British relations. The details were horrifying that I’m not able to publish them. Forget about the visuals; even the text I read from various sources terrified me. The incident was later justified by Englishmen in 2019 with deep regret. The incident almost convinced me that the word we use as ‘United India’ was a big lie on the face of our past history. The statement in the headline was a quote given by Jugeshinder Singh, CFO of Adani Group, who stated, ‘In Jallianwala Bagh, only one Englishman gave an order, and Indians fired on other Indians.’ Even today as well, we have this stigma of recalling the incident with extreme regret. Even after witnessing the Revolt of 1857 as a great intent of Unity of India, we failed. When a bomb blast was done, people weren’t worrying about the victims but only criticizing the criminals just because they were from some other religion, we failed. When two innocent children were punished to death, religion was given more value than two innocent lives, we failed. It bothers me that even after more than a hundred years of this horrible massacre, we have failed to take back the spirit of unity. We have badly failed.
One Englishman Gave An Order, And Indians Fired On Other Indians
