HIstory repeats itself…

Gunshots in the Garden…

1919 India after the Spanish Flu outbreak:

By April 13, most of Punjab was under martial law and civil liberties, including freedom of assembly, were curtailed. This meant that gatherings of more than four people were banned.

Open fire

On April 13, the festive day of Baisakhi, a crowd had gathered at Jallianwala Bagh near the Harminder Sahib, Amritsar. Surrounded by houses and buildings and with very narrow entrances, little did people know that it would become a death trap by the end of the day.

^^^^^^Reminds me of Vegas shooting

That evening, Brigadier-General Dyer, the local commander, arrived with Gurkha and Balochi soldiers armed with rifles. Armoured cars that came with them could not enter because of the narrow passages. With the entrance blocked by his soldiers, Dyer gave the command to fire. For 10 minutes, the firing continued as people tried to escape by jumping into a well or stampeding through the entrances. Once the ammunition ran out, the soldiers left. But curfew was declared and the injured could not be moved.

While the official figure of deaths given by the British was 379, the Indian National Congress’ inquiry put the figure at 1,000.

https://www.thehindu.com/features/kids/gunshots-in-the-garden/article7085151.ece