09/06/2026
زمونږ مشرانو به د ازادي لپاره داسي شهيدان کیدل، خو اوس وخت کې مجاهلین لکه حکومت یار🫣 ، شهید مولی او قهرمان مولی به مونږ د پنجابي غلامان کړو شرم دی.
Rebellious Sepoys (Freedom Fighters) Facing Ex*****on by Cannon in Peshawar, 1857 (c).
The mutineers (freedom fighters) faced one of the most brutal forms of punishment; they were tied to the front of cannons and blown apart in front of a crowd. Many others were hanged publicly and subsequently placed in hot lime to ensure their bones and flesh would vanish.
This was intended to demonstrate the lengths to which the British would go in a barbaric manner to punish mutineers, ensuring that offenders met an unholy death, preventing their remains from being buried in accordance with Islamic traditions.
The British were led to believe that burning a body would disturb the soul or spirit, denying it access to heaven. This philosophy underpinned the horrific ex*****ons.
The current Peshawar Airport or Air Force Base stands on the site of these ex*****ons. There are accounts of these events documented by British writers.
Soldiers of all faiths were compelled to stand and witness the ex*****ons, serving as a lesson to deter similar actions in the future.
Detail Account:- [ 10 June 1857 ]
On 10 June 1857, Herbert Edwardes, the British political officer at Peshawar, ordered forty captured Indian mutineers to be blown from guns, a method of ex*****on in which the victim was tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired. As the body parts were scattered over a wide area, it prevented Hindu and Muslim soldiers from the right of a proper funeral, so effectively extending the punishment beyond death.
According to a British correspondent, ‘all met their fate with firmness,’ except for ‘two who would not be tied up; so to save them, they were dropped to the ground and their brains blown out by musketry.’ The remaining ex*****ons were then carried out ‘in the presence of the whole force, a fearful but necessary example which had struck terror into their souls;’ the reporter adding ‘such a scene I hope never again to witness, human trunks, heads, legs, arms etc flying about in all directions.
Twelve marginally more fortunate Indian prisoners, who had been found guilty at a summary general court martial for offences ranging from mutiny to desertion, were spared the fate of cannonading and instead hung from a long row of twelve gallows, erected for the entertainment of what a lieutenant in the Horse Artillery described as ‘a General Parade of the Peshawar Troops… consisting of about 3,000 Europeans and 8,000 natives.’
Type - Wood Engraving Art, 19th Century.
Source - Illustrated Times, 1855 - 1872.
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