Sher Singh Udham Singh Pg 1

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Champions of Hinduism: Udham Singh

Udham Singh (1899 - 1940) Pg 1/5

Udham Singh was born on 26th December 1899, in Sangrur Dist, Punjab. His mother died in 1901 followed by his father’s death in 1907. After the death of his father he was taken to Khalsa Orphanage, where he passed his matriculation examination in 1918 and left the orphanage in 1919.

On 13th April 1919, over twenty thousand Indians, mainly Sikhs, peacefully assembled in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, to listen to several prominent leaders. Udham Singh and his friends were there, serving water to the crowd, when he saw 90 soldiers armed with rifles and swords marched to the park, followed by two armored cars with mounted machine guns. With no warning to the crowd to disperse, Brigadier-General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire indiscriminately, which lasted for about 15 minutes.

Jalianwala Bagh has only one exit, which was blocked by the troop. Some people climbed the walls, some jumped in to the well to escape the bullets. By the time smoke cleared, hundreds of people had been killed and thousands injured. The official figures were given as 379 killed and 200 injured but other reports suggest the figure to be much higher. Dr. Smith, Civil Surgeon of Amritsar, has given number to be 1800 dead. Official figures say that 1650 rounds of bullets had been fired. Even today, after some 89 years of this incident only few people will have the stomach to digest that 1800 innocent lives were extinguished in just 15 minutes. One can hardly imagine more cruelty and more brutality beyond this.!!

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