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Jallianwala 'deeply shameful incident': British PM Cameron Feb 20th 2013, 07:56 Jallianwala 'deeply shameful incident': British PM Cameron Didn't apologize though. Quote: British Prime Minister David Cameron laid a wreath on Wednesday at Jallianwala Bagh and wrote in the visitor's book that the incident is a "deeply shameful incident in British history". Cameron, dressed in a dark suit and bowing his head, laid the flowers at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial in Amritsar, where hundreds of unarmed protesters were gunned down by British troops in 1919. Cameron become the first serving prime minister to voice regret about one of the British Empire's bloodiest episodes in India. The 1919 slaughter, known in India as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was described by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian independence movement, as having shaken the foundations of the British Empire. A group of soldiers opened fire on an unarmed crowd without warning in the northern Indian city after a period of unrest, killing hundreds in cold blood. Cameron's visit and expression of regret for what happened will stop short of an apology - but will make it clear he considers the episode a stain on Britain's history that should be acknowledged.

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