How many died when the military went in to clear protesters who refused to obey a martial law curfew?
A recent book stated 478 dead with 920 wounded .[ ref 1] .
In the fighting caused by the reckless British’s Partition of India, Wolpert says a conservative number who were murdered or expired is 200,000, a more realistic total is one million. [ ref 2].
Yasmin puts it at 500,000 to one million. [ ref 3].
Mountbatten puts the figure at first 100, 000 then 200,000. British commanders on the ground like Ismay put it at nearer 1 million. [ ref 4].
In the May 13, 1969 Tragedy the official death toll is 196.[ ref 5].
Ref:
1] Tony Saich “From Rebel to Ruler One Hundred years of the Chinese Communist Party”, published 2021, states that Timothy Brooke in his Quelling the People , 1992 published, provides the most careful account of the military actions and Brooke suggests that 478 died with 920 wounded. [ see p 510 footnote 44].
2] Shameful Flight: The Last Years of The British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert, 2006, p 1.
3] The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan, 2007, p 6.
4] Partition by Barney White-Spunner, 2017, p 356.
5] Life After- Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident, 2022.