Question

How did indians respond to the news of the amritsar massacre?

Answer 1

  The Amritsar massacre was a slaughter taken by soldiers of the indian-british army in the city of Amritsar on April 13th  1919. This soldiers in command of the general Reginald Dyer shoot with machine guns to a crowd of thousands of people of differents creeds unarmed who were celebrating the Vaisakhi (Indian new year). The result of this attack let 329 cassualties and 1200 wounded people.

  The reactions in the rest of India were specially condemnatory so much for the act itself as for the saids of the general Dyer who told in his report that the people in Amritsar were a potential rebel army and his intention was to punish the disobedience. In Britain the goverment of Lloyd George tried to avoid the spread of the news considering it as a scandal and several politics like Winston Churchill stood agains it while more details were leak like the one that the indian people were unarmed at the time the shoot started.

  Nevertheless this actions, a big part of the british government in India approved Dyer´s actions asking not to punsih him if not congratulates him for stopping a possible revolution in the region.

  But the most important consequence of this massacre took by the british was that it marks the prelude of the non coperation movement held by Mahatma Ghandi between 1920 and 1922.