EDIT CONTAINS 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday (February 20) laid a wreath in the northern city of Amritsar at the site of the British Empire's bloodiest episode in India, calling it 'deeply shameful'.<br/> <br />Known in India as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, in 1919 a group of British soldiers opened fire on an unarmed crowd without warning after a period of unrest, killing hundreds in cold blood.<br/> <br />The incident was described by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian independence movement, as having shaken the foundations of the British Empire.<br/> <br />In a message written in the visitors book, Cameron clearly described the massacre as 'deeply shameful.'<br/> <br />The British report into the Amritsar massacre at the time said 379 people had been killed and 1,200 wounded. But a separate inquiry commissioned by the Indian pro-independence movement said around 1,000 people had been killed.
