HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Dyer
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Benn
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Montagu
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Irwin
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dyer ordered his troops to begin shooting toward the densest sections of the crowd in front of the available narrow exits, where panicked crowds were trying to leave the Bagh. Firing continued for approximately ten minutes. Unarmed civilians including men, women, elderly people and children were killed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Open Fire by General Dyre at Jallianwala Bagh On April 13, 1919, there was a massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, also referred to as the Amritsar massacre.
Detailed explanation-3: -General Dyer opened fire on the crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in order to strictly enforce the Martial Law that was in effect at the time in Amritsar. General Dyer also wanted to send a message that there would be no resistance to British colonial rule in India.