Britain's high commissioner to India laid a wreath on Saturday on the 100th anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, one of the worst atrocities of colonial rule for which London is still to apologise.
A hundred years ago, on 13 April 1919, British Brigadier-General R E H Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of thousands of Indians in Amritsar killing about 380 of them. The troops included 25 ...