A notorious 1919 massacre that cost the lives of hundreds of Indians and has long been seen as one of the British Empire’s most shameful episodes. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/cameron-calls-colonial-era-massacre-in-india-shameful.html?ref=world Britain’s colonial history is so replete with regrettable episodes that officials have quietly worried that an apology for one episode might lead to an outpouring of demands for similar apologies all over the world. In 1919, Brig. Reginald Dyer, a British officer administering martial law, ordered 50 soldiers to open fire on a crowd of about 10,000 unarmed Indians protesting a postwar extension of World War 1 detention laws. A British inquiry concluded that 379 people were killed and 1,100 wounded, but an Indian inquiry estimated that 1,000 died.