Word: jalliamvala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of disturbances in the Punjab, British Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer threw a detachment of soldiers around a forbidden public meeting in an enclosed square, and ordered his men to fire until their ammunition was exhausted. Result: 379 Indians killed. 1,200 wounded. That massacre (at Jalliamvala Bagh) changed Father's mind...
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