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14. Hogwash. There was a major inquiry into the massacre.

Reply to Not Ruth (Reply #13)

Mon Aug 14, 2017, 06:25 PM

Aug 2017

And it was condemned by the British government.

Only those in favor of the Raj thought Dyer was a hero, the British public as a whole despised him for it.

If Nazis had done such a thing, they would have been praised for it by Hitler.

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