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All the shots fired during the Amritsar massacre were fired by British Indian Army soldiers, commanded by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer. The people fired upon were unarmed. The British Indian Army soldiers were a mix of Gurkhas and Baluchis, so they were Indian under British orders.

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