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The last time something simikar happened was during the Indian famine before World War 2. Scores of Millions in India starved while grain was exported to Britain.
Let me build on that.
@ShashiTharoor in #IngloriousEmpire page 160 writes:
"..by the time it ended, nearly 4 million people in Bengal had starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered...
@ShashiTharoor in #IngloriousEmpire page 160 writes:
"..by the time it ended, nearly 4 million people in Bengal had starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered...
the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere. 'the starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious' than that of 'sturdy Greeks', he wrote.
The #JallianwalaBaghMassacre is the middle. The violence began with a promise of freedom. Which was eventually won through more bloodshed and resistance to an oppressive and blind #BritishEmpire.
#IngloriousEmpire
#Justice
#BritishIndians
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#IngloriousEmpire
#Justice
#BritishIndians
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Rather than Freedom Indians were punished under more draconian laws.
The #RowlattAct broke the last illusion of the masses awakened the masses to #Swarajya #SelfRule and a spirit to achieve it by any means.
#JallianwalaBaghMassacre
#BritishEmpire
#IngloriousEmpire
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The #RowlattAct broke the last illusion of the masses awakened the masses to #Swarajya #SelfRule and a spirit to achieve it by any means.
#JallianwalaBaghMassacre
#BritishEmpire
#IngloriousEmpire
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In a park, in #Punjab to protest the arrest of two freedom fighters #Satyapal and #SaifuddinKitchlew. Without any warning #BrigadierGeneralDyer and his troops opened fire.
In his words, Dyer shouted: "Fire low. What have you been brought here for?
#JallianwalaBaghMassacre
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In his words, Dyer shouted: "Fire low. What have you been brought here for?
#JallianwalaBaghMassacre
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