Event during the independence movement in British India
Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre د قصه خوانۍ بازار خونړۍ پېښه
British Indian troops in Peshawar during the demonstrations
Location
Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (Present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan)
Date
23 April 1930; 94 years ago (1930-04-23)
Target
Khudai Khidmatgar protestors
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths
20 demonstrators killed according to official reports
400 demonstrators killed according to local sources[1]
Perpetrators
British Indian Army
The Qissa Khwani massacre[2] (Pashto: د قصه خوانۍ بازار خوڼۍ پېښه) in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) on 23 April 1930 was an armoured vehicle-ramming attack and mass shooting of the unarmed civilian freedom fighters by the British colonial troops, which consequently became one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India.
It was the first major confrontation between the British Indian Army and demonstrators in the city belonging to Abdul Ghaffar Khan's non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar (servants of God) movement against the British colonial government.[3]
Contemporary estimates put the death toll between the official count of 20 and the figure of 400 put forth by Pakistani and Indian sources.[1] The shooting of unarmed people triggered protests across British India and catapulted the newly formed Khudai Khidmatgar movement into prominence.[4]
^ ab"Peshawar: Qissa Khwani martyrs remembered". Dawn.com. 24 April 2008. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
^Yunus, Mohammed (1980). Persons, Passions & Politics. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd. p. 6. ISBN 0-7069-1017-6.
^"Massacre at Qissa Khwani Bazaar, 1930". 28 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
^Sarwar, Kazi (20 April 2002). "Qissa Khwani's tale of tear and blood". Statesman.com.pk.
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