- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Rithika Siddhartha
LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan said the British government should apologise for a colonial-era massacre in India as he visited the site this morning (6). British troops opened fire on thousands of unarmed protesters in the city of Amritsar in Punjab, north India, in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, leaving 1,000 dead. David Cameron described it as deeply shameful when the prime minister visited the memorial in Punjab during a 2013 trip to India, but stopped short of an apology. Writing in the visitors’ book, Khan said it had been “incredibly moving” to see the site of the massacre, calling it…
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