I was just watching Gandhi (1982) and saw the scene of Reginald Dyer killing thousands of Indians with no remorse. Some praised him, others vilified him. Eventually India slipped from the grasp of the UK anyway.

I personally think Britain had no business in India but this man is worthy of praise. With strong men like him anything is possible - even the subjugation of millions of people. The White race was once the master of the world and all it had was a handful of people like Dyer to enforce its will. This is an amazing feat yet it is almost lost to history.

Hail brother Dyer.

General Dyer is infamous for the orders which he gave on April 13, 1919 in Amritsar. It was under his command that 90 troops, comprising of 25 Gurkhas of 1st/9th Gurkha Rifles, 25 Pathans and Baluch of 54th Sikhs and 59th Sindh Rifles, all armed with .303 Lee-Enfield rifles and the Gurkhas additionally armed with khukris opened fire on a gathering of unarmed civilians, including women and children gathered at the Jallianwalla Bagh in what came to be later known as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
The civilians had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh to participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations which are both a religious as well as a cultural festival of the Punjabis. The Bagh-space comprised 6–7 acres and was walled on all sides except for five entrances, four of them being very narrow and admitting only a few people at a time. The fifth entrance was blocked by the armed soldiers and by two armoured cars armed with machine guns, although these vehicles were unable to pass through the entrance. Upon entering the park, the General immediately ordered troops to fire directly upon the assembled gathering; firing continued till his troops' ammunition of 1650 rounds was fully exhausted. [1] The firing continued unabated for about 10 minutes. [2] From time to time, Dyer "checked his fire and directed it upon places where the crowd was thickest" [3]; he did this not because the crowd was slow to disperse, but because he (the General) "had made up his mind to punish them for having assembled there."[4] Some of the soldiers initially fired in the air, at which General Dyer shouted: "Fire low. What you have been brought here for?."[5] Later, Dyer's own testimony revealed that the crowd was not given any warning to disperse and he felt no remorse for having ordered his troops to fire.[6]
"The worst part of the whole thing was that the firing was directed towards the exit gates through which the people were running out. There were small 3 or 4 outlets in all and bullets were actually rained over the people at all these gates.... and many got trampled under the feet of the rushing crowds and thus lost their lives.......even those who lay flat on the ground were fired upon."[7]

On his return to England, General Dyer was presented with a purse of 18,000 pounds sterling, a huge sum in those days, which emerged from a collection on his behalf by the Morning Post, a conservative, pro-Imperialistic newspaper, which later merged with the Daily Telegraph. A Thirteen Women Committee was constituted to present "the Savior of the Punjab with sword of honour and a purse." This single incident incensed the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore so much that he renounced his knighthood in protest. The Morning Post had supported Dyer’s action on grounds stating that the massacre was necessary to "Protect the honour of European Women."[24] The Morning Post curiously blamed Mr Montagu, Secretary of State (India), and not General Dyer for the massacre and asked for his court trial. Mr Montagu, on the other hand, in a long letter to the Viceroy, passed the blame on to Michael O'Dwyer and admitted "I feel that O’Dwyer represents a regime that is doomed."[citation needed]
General Dyer was oblivious of the events that he was responsible for. He wrote an article in the Globe of 21 January 1921, titled, "The Peril to the Empire". It commenced with, "India does not want self-government. She does not understand it." He went on to write
It is only an enlightened people that a free speech and free press can be extended. The Indian people want no such enlightenment
There should be an eleventh commandment in India, "Thou shalt not agitate"
The time will come to India when a strong hand will be exerted against the malicious perverters of good order
Gandhi will not lead India to capable self-government. The British Raj must continue, firm and unshaken in its administration of justice to all men.

Reports that Michael O’Dwyer was responsible for General Dyer’s downfall came to be highlighted after Dyer's return to England. [25] General Dyer could not enjoy a comfortable sleep even for a day after the massacre.[26] After the Amritsar massacre, Dyer's health failed and in 1921 he was stricken with paralysis. He never recovered. He died at Long Ashton, near Bristol, on July 23, 1927 of Atherosclerosis and cerebral hemorrhage. In the final moments of his life, he is reported to have murmured: "but I don’t want to get better. Some say I did right, while others say I did wrong. I only want to die... and know of my maker whether I did right or wrong."[27]
The Morning Post remembered him in articles titled, "The Man Who Saved India" and "He did his Duty". The Westminster Gazette wrote a contrary opinion, "No British action, during the whole course of our history in India, has struck a severer blow to Indian faith in British justice than the massacre at Amritsar, and the attitude of official Anglo-India to it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Dyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar_massacre