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Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2024
Action needed- add new "Massacre" section:

Please add the following new "Massacre" section below the "Famine" section and above the "Education" section.

== Massacre of Indian civilians by British troops==

This is the list of civilian massacre of Indians, in most cases comprised of unarmed peaceful crowds, by the British colonial troops. Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.


 * Jallianwala Bagh massacre‎ on 13 April 1919 at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in Punjab: Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer's troops massacred 379 to more than 1,500 unarmed peaceful civilians, and wounded over 1,200 other Indian civilians. The level of casual brutality, and lack of any accountability, stunned the entire nation, resulting in a wrenching loss of faith of the general Indian public in the intentions of the United Kingdom.


 * Munshiganj Raebareli massacre on 7 January 1921 at Munshiganj in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh: The official death toll of Indian farmers is shown minimal by the British historians whereas other estimates put the death toll in the hundreds, causing the nearby Sai river turn red from the blood.


 * Salanga massacre on 27 January 1922 in Salanga bazaar in Raiganj Upazila in then-Bengal province & present-day Bangladesh: The police opened fire killing hundreds, deathtoll ranged from 1,500 to 4,500 people. A mass graveyard remains near Salanga Bazar at Rahmatganj, where Salanga Day is commemorated annually on 27 January in the memory of victims.


 * Qissa Khwani massacre on 23 April 1930 in modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan: In this armoured vehicle-ramming attack and mass shooting of the unarmed civilian Khudai Khidmatgar freedom fighters by the British colonial troops, The shooting of unarmed people triggered protests across British India.


 * Spin Tangi massacre on 24 August 1930 at the Spin Tangi village near Domel in Bannu district of the North-West Frontier Province of British India: 80 non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar Pashtun protesters were killed by the colonial British Army.


 * Takkar massacre on 28 May 1930 at Takkar in Mardan tehsil in North-West Frontier Province of British India: When local villagers attempted to stop soldiers from arresting freedom fighter activists of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, in the ensuing shooting an English police officer called Murphy was killed, three days later, a large force of British colonial troops attacked the village in retaliation, killing 70 and wounding another 150 people in the massacre. A monument has been built in the memory of victims.


 * Vidurashwatha massacre on 25 April 1938 at Vidurashwatha presently in Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapur district in Karnataka: Colonial troops fired 90 rounds on unarmed people who had assembled to hoist the flag of the Indian National Congress, killing 33 and wounding more than 100 people.

Edit comment: New section titled "Massacre" created with condensed snd rephrased content taken from the wikilinked articles as permissible under the Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you. 220.255.242.109 (talk) 06:25, 12 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for compiling this! I added the section, but ommitted "Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre."  Please provide a reliable source for this claim.  Thanks. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Also, it would probably be good to make a list of massacres as a standalone article, link to that list in this article, and condense this section into prose. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 June 2024
Add: 'At the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919' before 'Brigadier General R.E.H. Dyer's troops...', in the section Massacre of Indian civilians by British troops 108.35.46.14 (talk) 22:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)


 * ✅ Done SKAG123 (talk) 05:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)