To: arun gera who wrote (97520 ) 1/6/2013 4:17:32 AM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Respond to of 218447 In Beijing, just 20 years ago, a similar suppression of a banned gathering was conducted. At Kent State, a lesser attack on students [only 4 dead] was conducted. Lt William Calley conducted a far worse mass murder at My Lai. The USA nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki to suppress Japan. Dresden was leveled. Germany mass bombed London and attempted to exterminate a whole race. General suppression by political power is brutal and vicious. Stalin knew how to do it on a grand scale too. The intended suppression of revolution at Amritsar was considered monstrous by Churchill and Asquith: en.wikipedia.org As suppression goes, it was trivial and considered abhorrent by many in Britain. Gandhi achieved his aim of revolution and local rule and the carnage really got going, to his dismay. Something like 200,000 to 1 million casualties. en.wikipedia.org The carnage continues to this day with an Islamic attack on Bombay of 470 casualties [164 dead]. India and Pakistan could yet have a nuclear war which would really get the numbers up. China kicked the British out and Japan went on the rampage. By the time the mass killings of Mao's Maelstrom in China were over, half a century later, all the rest pale into insignificance. I guess that continued British rule, as happened in New Zealand and Singapore, which gently and gradually became independent, and in Hong Kong, would have been a better solution for India. Revolutions are normally horrible. Gandhi got to be the boss, but what a horrific price that egocentric glory cost. An interesting conversation between Churchill and Gandhi about power: ppu.org.uk < Brigadier Dyer is notorious for the orders which he gave on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar . It was by his command that 50 troops, including 25 Gurkhas of 1st/ 9th Gurkha Rifles , 25 Pathans and Baluch of 54th Sikhs and 59th Sindh Rifles > Those would be locals doing the shooting. Was the crowd of men they fired into Islamic? Normally Britain used one local tribe to suppress other locals [in NZ various Maori tribes would back the British against their enemies]. What do you think is the chance of Pakistan and India going nuclear? They certainly like strutting: youtube.com They could get improved strutting from John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Walks: youtube.com Mqurice