After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, came the torture, crawling, floggings

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After the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, came the torture,
crawling, floggings

TNNApr 13, 2019, 12:05 IST
To punish Amritsar, the military ordered residents to compulsorily salute all British men, arrested hundreds without charge, tortured them and tried them under martial law. 100 years on, the British govt still refuses to apologise for the atrocities carried out in Jallianwala
Across undivided Punjab, especially in Amritsar, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919 was not the end, but the beginning of suffering. The colonial administration was in no mood to relent and followed the massacre with the imposition of martial law on April 16 (and back dated to March 30) and reprisals included forced crawling in the lane where a British missionary teacher was attacked, public floggings, indiscriminate arrests and a host of other humiliations.

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