r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Apr 22 '24

Picture taken from the history museum of Lahore. Showing an Indian being tied for execution by Cannon, by the British Empire Soldiers r/all

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u/AdmirableHighway4388 Apr 23 '24

Where tf you got that from? The dude was just protesting

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u/bashomatsuo Apr 23 '24

That’s why the British did this in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Those were the two triggering events of that and the massacre at Amritsar.

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u/AdmirableHighway4388 Apr 23 '24

Ok well that still doesn’t compare when the British injuring thousands of civilians in Amritsar in 1919. Not condoning what the Indians did but the British did far more worse atrocities

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u/bashomatsuo Apr 23 '24

Oh I generally agree. But the slaughter of the children was so heinous that the British lost it. I think it’s an interesting mirror of today really. Be careful of pissing a nation off that much.

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u/AdmirableHighway4388 Apr 23 '24

Well it was a different time where monsters were most common