“This was a deeply shameful act in British history. We must
never forget what happened here.” That was what British Prime
Minister David Cameron had to say about the horrific massacre of
April 13, 1919, one of the ugliest events in three centuries
riddled with ugly events to demonstrate British dominance over
the subjects of a land they had taken over, by cunning and
force. And he refused to apologise. Now, an apology would mean
nothing. This is not the British government that was in place at
the time, and the British government that was in place at the
time was more forthcoming about the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre
than Cameron. Winston Churchill, Secretary of War at the time,
called it an “outrage”. Churchill was the sort of colonial who
said, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly
religion.” He was the sort of racist who said: “It is alarming
and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple
lawyer of the type well-known in the East, now posing as a
fakir, striding half nake