Amritsar Massacre Research Paper

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History of mankind is a mess. When you learn more about it, you will realize how lucky we are to live here in this era. When I say history, I am talking about the war and the human thirst of conquering the other's land. Humans were never happy with what they have. Those who were in power wanted to make their borders bigger and extend their power to larger areas. War between countries will be always there; it doesn't matter which span you live. However, how the war changes people's life does might differ from one era to another. Now a day's, humans have equipped with weapons that could erase the entire mankind forever. It all depends on who use the weapon and how safe, they handle the weapon. It has been like that always. One person's action could defame the entire …show more content…

Amritsar massacre, also known as The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, is a perfect example of that. Even though British army Colonel Reginald Dyer executed the massacre in 1919, it is still hunting the entire British nation like a nightmare. So what is the Amritsar massacre? Why are people still talking about it? Why are people blaming one's action to decry the entire nation? I believe I am suitable to discuss this because I grew up in India and now I reside in America. Since I am away from India, I am able view another side of the same story also. I am a firm believer of this-'There are two sides to every story, yet people end up to listen to one side and believe it to be the truth'. In addition to that, history could forge by those who write it and how they want people to see the history. I think the Amritsar massacre history has been forged by the local Indian historians to grow Indian hates towards British. Those historians only wanted Indians to see what happened or how bad the massacre was to the Indians not why did that happened. Massacre is a massacre; just to be cleared I am not alleviating the massacre here. Only objection I have here is, you can't just say this is what happened

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