Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919

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Name (Hebrew)
טבח אמריצר, הודו, 1919
Name (Latin)
Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919
Name (Arabic)
مذبحة أمريتسار، 1919
Other forms of name
Jallian Wala Bagh Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919
nne India Amritsar Massacre, 1919
Coordinates
74.88055556 74.88055556 31.62055556 31.62055556 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Massacres India
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q208855
Library of congress: sh2007002741
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Draper, A. The Amritsar massacre, 1985.
  • Britannica online, Apr. 23, 2007(Massacre of Amritsar: April 13, 1919 incident in which British troops fired on a crowd of unarmed Indian protesters, killing a large number. It left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the prelude to Mahatma Gandhi's Non-cooperation Movement of 1920-22)
  • Amritsar.com website, Apr. 23, 2007(Amritsar Massacre; Jallian Wala Bagh)
  • Wikipedia, Apr. 23, 2007(Jallianwala Bagh massacre: the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, also known as the Amritsar Massacre, was named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, where, on April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children)