If you’ve seen the film masterpiece Gandhi, you may remember a pivotal event in India’s move for Independence came when a British regimen killed thousands of innocent people including women and children in an enclosed space like shooting livestock in a fenced-in yard. The Amritsar Massacre was a turning point that spurred action in the movement. The site of this horrific event, Jallianwala Bagh, is near the Golden Temple and preserved as a memorial to those innocent lives lost.
We visited this place after recently watching the movie where the event was reenacted. To see the place in person is sobering with bullet holes riddling brick walls. The well where people jumped to escape but only fell to their deaths is also preserved in their memory. The quiet park has a large monument in the center surrounded by a dry water feature. Topiaries in the shapes of gunmen depict the event and remind of the actual horror that took place.
