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Option 3 : General Dyer
The correct answer is General Dyer.
- The onus of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that happened in 1919 was on General Dyer of the British Army.
- On April 13, 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, occurred.
- The arrest of pro-Indian independence leaders Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satya Pal drew a largely peaceful crowd to the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab.
- The temporary Brigadier general R. E. H. Dyer surrounded the demonstrators with his Gurkha British Indian army unit, Sindh Sikh regiment, and 52nd Sikh regiment in response to the public gathering.
- The attack was denounced by Secretary of State for War Winston Churchill as "unutterably horrible," and members of Parliament voted 247 to 37 against Dyer in a House of Commons debate on July 8, 1920.
- Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer was a Bengal Army officer who eventually joined the newly formed British Indian Army. Because of his order to fire on a peaceful crowd, he has been dubbed "the Butcher of Amritsar."
- Horatio Herbert Kitchener was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator and senior British Army officer.
- The first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency was Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, commonly known as Clive of India.
- Major-General Stringer Lawrence, the first Commander-in-Chief of Fort William, was an English soldier.
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