Jallianwala Bagh massacre: Modern India's worst atrocity remembered in tweets

On April 13, 1919, nonviolent protesters at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, who were protesting against the arrest of two leaders, were shot at by the army on the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer. Official figures state that 501 people were killed that day, with thousands injured.

However, this was the official figure and the Indian National Congress put the number at over 1000 dead. In 2013, British PM David Cameron had written in a visitor book: "This is a deeply shameful event in British history, one that Winston Churchill rightly described at the time as 'monstrous'." However, he had stopped short of apologising. Despite the number crimes committed in the name of the Empire which has carried out atrocities across the globe, the Jallianwala Bagh massacare lives on in its memory for its sheer savagery.

Here are collection of tweets by Harini Calamur which reminds us of the heinous act: