General Dyer and Amritsar

Oct 29, 2009 16:49



While on the transatlantic flight a few days ago I watched the film "Gandhi".  This incident was depicted in the film:

(info below from Wikipedia)

Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer was a British Indian Army officer infamous for the orders which he gave on April 13, 1919 in Amritsar. It was under his command that 90 troops opened fire on a gathering of ( Read more... )

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bluesman October 29 2009, 18:58:12 UTC
Bloody imperialist, arrogant British gits. Wait a minute...

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