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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Slovenia or its territory (numbers may be approximate):
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marburg's Bloody Sunday | 27 January 1919 | Maribor | 9 – 13 civilians of German ethnic origin | Possibly accidental or German provoked |
| Celje prison massacre | 22 July 1942 | Celje | 100 Slovenian civilians | |
| Maribor prison massacre | 2 October 1942 | Maribor | 143 Slovenian civilians | |
| Frankolovo crime | 12 February 1945 | Frankolovo | 100 Slovenian civilians |
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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab to protest against the arrest of pro-Indian independence leaders Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satya Pal. In response to the public gathering, the British Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab Brigadier R. E. H. Dyer surrounded the protesters with his Gurkha British Indian army unit, Sindh Sikh regiment and 52nd Sikh regiment. The Jallianwala Bagh could only be exited on one side, as its other three sides were enclosed by buildings. After blocking the exit with his troops, he ordered them to shoot at the crowd, continuing to fire even as the protestors tried to flee. The troops kept on firing until their ammunition was exhausted. Estimates of those killed vary between 379 and 1500+ people and over 1,200 other people were injured of whom 192 were seriously injured. Responses polarised both the British and Indian peoples. Anglo-Indian author Rudyard Kipling declared at the time that Dyer "did his duty as he saw it". This incident shocked Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian polymath and the first Asian Nobel laureate, to such an extent that he renounced his knighthood.
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