The Killer And The Killed

A "clash" is where two objects or factions strike noisily against each other. Where the striking and the sound is wholly one-sided, there is no "clash", and yet almost the entire non-Sikh Press, refers to this massacre of Sikhs as a "clash". As the facts are, almost all the dead persons of this "clash" are the Sikh protesters, each one of them an educated, well-employed citizen and a disciplined, dedicated and devout Sikh, barring a stray Muslim labourer, and two or three other passers-by, whom now the killers claim as their own, but decline to have their claim properly investigated.

All the killed Sikh protesters have been found as unarmed, wearing sheathed, short-sized religious symbol, kirpan. It was, thus, a "clash", such as occurred in A. D. 1919 at the Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar, on the Baisakhi day, between the peaceful Indian citizens, assembled to protest against the outrageous Rowlatt Act and the fully armed Gurkha soldiers of General Dyer.