New Delhi: A British member of parliament called for Britain to apologize to India for colonial atrocities such as massacre at Amritsar in 1919.
Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Steven Bonnar said, during a Commonwealth Day debate in the House of Commons, said that the Commonwealth countries were still waiting for an official apology, he added while quoting an example of the 1919 Amritsar incident when the Britishtroops had fired upon thousands of innocent, unarmed men, women and children during a peaceful protest.
He called out Britain for failing to apologise for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre even though the focus of the commonwealth debate was mainly on how the Commonwealth is a family that promotes democracy, human rights and women’s rights etc.