The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in Amritsar in the Punjab, when British Indian Army troops under Brigadier General Reginald Dyer opened fire without warning on a large crowd gathered in an enclosed garden. The people had assembled during the festival of Baisakhi, and many were there to protest against the Rowlatt Act, which allowed detention without trial. The soldiers fired until their ammunition was almost exhausted, and with the exits blocked, hundreds of unarmed men, women and children were killed, with far more wounded. Dyer was later censured but not punished, and many in Britain praised him. The massacre turned many Indians against British rule and strengthened Gandhi's non-cooperation movement.
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