After 101 years, Authorities Take Out ¡®Official¡¯ List Of 492 Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs
The unfortunate and devastating Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place over a century ago and an official list of 492 martyrs has been revealed amid a debate over its authenticity.
The unfortunate and devastating Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place over a century ago and an official list of 492 martyrs has been revealed amid a debate over its authenticity.
The list has been uploaded on the Amritsar administration¡¯s website.
The relatives of the martyrs have been asked to submit documents to ascertain their antecedents.
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So far, 11 people have submitted relevant documents and claimed to be the descendants of the martyrs.
A function has been scheduled at the state level to honour the martyrs' kin, on January 25 at Anand Park in Ranjit Avenue, where a separate memorial would be unveiled.
The administration has requested the public to approach the Deputy Commissioner's office by January 22, if they have information about martyrs' kin.
All MLAs, councillors and sarpanches have been approached with the list.
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DC Gurpreet Singh Khaira said efforts were being made to ascertain the list¡¯s authenticity.
¡°We are trying to reach out to the kin of the martyrs. It was quite a cumbersome process to identify all, given the fact that the list didn¡¯t have proper contacts and addresses,¡± he said.
The list of the dead and injured prepared by the British then, for the purpose of awarding compensation has several inconsistencies.
Lying at the DC¡¯s office, the list has 501 individuals with many marked as 'unidentified'.
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This was published by the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre is an unforgettable act of violence perpetrated on innocent people. Even today, bullet marks in the area speak volumes of what happened on that fateful day, and serve as warnings to never let something like that happen, ever again.
