Jallianwallah Bagh: April 13, 1919
Merely 376 Indians were killed. There were 120 bodies (mostly women and children) were plucked off the well. But Indian National Congress says " the toll rate is 1,000 - 1,500".
Dyer said he would have used his machine guns if he could have got them into the enclosure, but these were mounted on armored cars. He said he did not stop firing when the crowd began to disperse because he thought it was his ...duty to keep firing until the crowd dispersed, and that a little firing would do no good. In fact he continued the firing till he ran out of ammunition.
He confessed that he did not take any steps to tend to the wounded after the firing. "Certainly not. It was not my job. Hospitals were open and they could have gone there," was his response.
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