On April 13, 1919, British troops opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in a garden called the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of colonized India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more. Reportedly, the crowd was a mix of people gathered to celebrate Baisakhi and peaceful protestors defying the ban on public meetings.
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