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Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was an officer of the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India.
Ocorreu em 13 de abril de 1919, quando o Brigadeiro-General Reginald Dyer ordenou às tropas do Exército Britânico Indiano que disparassem seus rifles contra uma multidão de civis indianos [1] desarmados em Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, matando pelo menos 379 pessoas e ferindo mais de 1 200 outras pessoas.
Reginald Dyer was a British general remembered for his role in the Massacre of Amritsar in India, in 1919. Dyer was commissioned in the West Surrey Regiment in 1885 and subsequently transferred to the Indian Army. He campaigned in Burma (Myanmar) in 1886–87 and took part in a blockade of Waziristan.
13 de abr. de 2019 · Reginald Dyer was found responsible for the killing of unarmed Indian Sikhs during the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre and forced into retirement. Credit... Bettmann Archive, via Getty Images
Para alguns observadores britânicos, Dyer era um herói que defendeu a lei e a ordem em Amritsar. Morreu poucos anos depois, de derrame cerebral, enquanto Sir Michael O’Dwyer, o governador do Punjab na época, foi assassinado em Londres, em 13 de março de 1940 por um sobrevivente do massacre.
The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer is a 2006 historical biography written by Nigel Collett, a former Gurkha officer, which covers the life of Reginald Dyer. The book's title refers to the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in which 379 people were shot by troops under the command of Dyer. [1]
21 de out. de 2022 · Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer Unknown Photographer (Public Domain) On arrival in Amritsar on 11 April, Dyer witnessed firsthand the result of the riots: the looting and burning of two banks and two mission schools.
