Word: jallianwala
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Like the previous crackdown in 1988, the latest massacre in Burma remains shrouded in mystery. But there is a tragic changelessness in the scene of a crowd of unarmed people being gunned down by an army. From Jallianwala Bagh to Tiananmen to Rangoon, it must be the most frightful of all spectacles, as Churchill quoted Macaulay, to witness the strength of a civilization without its mercy. And to that we must add, without its memory...
India has witnessed massacres of her own. On April 13, 1919, Brigadier General Reginald Dyer of the British Army fired into a crowd of more than 3,000 unarmed protestors in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. The official number of dead was 379, but independent accounts put the number between...
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