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Tuesday, 10 September 2019
News article
Justin Welby prostrates himself in apology for British massacre at Amritsar
Archbishop says sorry ‘in the name of Christ’ over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919

🔼The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, lies on the ground at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images
The archbishop of
Canterbury has apologised “in the name of Christ” for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when
hundreds of people were shot dead by British forces.
Prostrating himself
at the memorial to the Jallianwala Bagh killings, Justin
Welby said: “The souls of those who were killed or wounded, of
the bereaved, cry out to us from these stones and warn us about power and the
misuse of power.
“I cannot speak for
the British government … but I can speak in the name of Christ and say this is
a place of both sin and redemption, because you have remembered what they have
done and their names will live, their memory will live before God. And I am so
ashamed and sorry for the impact of this crime committed here.”
Hindus, Christians,
Muslims and Sikhs were killed in April 1919 when they gathered in Amritsar, in
Punjab, then part of British India.
They were protesting peacefully after earlier riots over the arrest of
pro-independence leaders.
Under the orders of
Brig Gen Reginald Dyer, an Anglican, British troops opened fire. According to
official figures, 379 people were killed and about 1,200 wounded, though other
estimates suggested much higher casualties.
Winston Churchill
condemned the massacre in the House of Commons, saying it was “an extraordinary
event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister
isolation”.
In 2013, David
Cameron became the first serving prime minister to visit the site of the
killings, bowing his head in honour of the victims. The episode was “deeply
shameful” and should never be forgotten, he said, but he stopped short of apologising.
This year Theresa
May called the killings a “shameful scar” in British-Indian history but
also stopped short of formally apologising.
Writing on Facebook
during a trip to Sri Lanka and India, Welby said visiting the memorial had aroused
“a sense of profound shame at what happened in this place. It is one of a
number of deep stains on British history.”
He added: “Learning
of what happened, I recognise the sins of my British colonial history, the
ideology that too often subjugated and dehumanised other races and cultures …
We have a great responsibility to not just lament this horrific massacre but
most importantly to learn from it in a way that changes our actions.”
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