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9 Freakiest Mass Murder-Suicides 9 Freakiest Mass Murder- dagger deep into the Raja's heart, signaling the 5 Teutonic Women Who Committed Murder- Suicides that Will Leave commencement of Puputan. At that point the Suicide to Avoid Becoming Roman Slaves (France - 102 BC) entire group simultaneously began to kill one You Stunned another, while the women mockingly flung The Battle of Aquae Sextiae (in the south of money and jewelry onto the stupefied troops. On this fated day, over 1000 Balinese present-day France) took place in 102 BC. We've all read about some of the scariest people committed murder-suicide. According to the writings of Valerius Maximus murder-suicides, yet there are countless other Today, children are taught about and Florus, the king of the Teutones, Teutobod, terrifying situations from history which get very Puputan and the day is commemorated with was taken in irons after the Teutones were little mention. The following nine cases feature street reenactments. defeated by the Romans. Under the conditions brutal mass suicides, historical episodes which of the surrender, three hundred married women became infamous for ritual suicide, entire 3. Demmin's People Who Committed Mass were to be handed over as Roman slaves. When groups of people who committed suicide to Suicide to Avoid Rape and Murder by the matrons of the Teutones heard of this avoid subjugation to enemy invaders, and more. Soldiers of the Soviet Red Army (Germany - stipulation, they begged the consul that they Read on to discover nine freaky mass murder- 1945) might instead be allowed to minister in the suicides that will leave you stunned. temples of Ceres and Venus. When their request Toward the end of World War II, hundreds of was denied, the Teutonic women slew their own 1. Members of Peoples Temple Who people committed mass suicide in the town of children. The next morning, all the women were Committed Murder-Suicide to Avoid Demmin, Germany. The suicides occurred found dead in each other's arms, having Becoming Fascists and '"Dummies" during a mass panic that was provoked by strangled each other during the night. This act (Guyana - 1978) atrocities including rape, murder, and pillaging passed into Roman legends of Germanic that were committed by soldiers of the Soviet heroism. On the evening of November 18, 1978 in Red Army. In the spring of 1945, almost nine Jonestown, Guyana, 909 members of Peoples hundred people committed suicide with guns, 6, Solar Temple Members Who Committed Temple killed themselves, including their leader razor blades, or poison, while others hanged or Murder-Suicide to Escape the "Hypocrisies and Jim Jones and 276 children. drowned themselves in the Peene and Tollense Oppression of This World" (Switzerland and This fateful night, Jones ordered his rivers. Several mothers killed their children Canada - 1994-97) congregation to drink a concoction of a cyanide- before killing themselves, or walked into one of laced grape flavored drink. Parents were the rivers with a rock in a backpack and their In 1994, the small Religious Movement called instructed to inject their young children with the babies in their arms. The Order of the Solar Temple leapt to fame same drink. However, the suicides were not after their appearance in Newspapers and on TV But what drove them to this dire successful in every case. Some mothers who for the murder-suicide of 74 of its members. decision? had drowned their children were unable to The Solar Temple was founded in During a visit from Leo Ryan, a drown themselves afterward. In other cases, the Geneva in 1984 by a New Age lecturer, Joseph Congressman from San Francisco, a number of dose of poison was lethal for the children but De Mambro, and Luc Jouret, a homeopathic Temple members expressed a desire to leave the not for their mothers. physician. Its headquarters was later moved to sect. On the afternoon of the fatidic day, these Even though the citizens of Demmin did Zürich, and regional lodges were set up in members accompanied Ryan to the local not commit suicide at exactly the same time, the Switzerland, Canada, and elsewhere. According airstrip. While they were boarding planes, a closeness of the acts of suicide and the fact that to the teachings of The Solar Temple, the Earth truckload of Jim Jones' guards arrived and they killed themselves for the same reasons would face a worldwide catastrophe in the mid- began to shoot. The gunmen left five people makes this incident a mass suicide. 1990s. In anticipation of this apocalyptic event, dead: Congressman Ryan, a reporter and a members believed that it was necessary to enter cameraman from NBC, a newspaper 4. Chittor's People Who Committed Self- a higher spiritual plane. photographer, and one "defector" from Peoples Immolation to Avoid Capture and to Protect Between October 4 and 5, 1994, more Temple. Fortunately, a producer for NBC News, the Sexes' Honor (India - 1303, 1535 and than fifty members of The Solar Temple in Bob Flick, survived the attack. 1568) Canada and Switzerland committed murder- The FBI did recover a 45 minute audio suicide, and the buildings in which they died recording of the suicide in progress. On that Jauhar and Saka are two ancient Indian Rajput were set on fire. A year later another sixteen tape, Jones tells Temple members that the Hindu traditions of honorable self-immolation members killed themselves, and five more died Soviet Union --with whom the Temple had been that occurred in Rajput kingdoms during similarly in March 1997. negotiating a potential exodus for months-- Mughal times. According to those traditions, Farewell letters were left by members, would not take them after the Temple had men and women could avoid capture and stating that they believed their deaths would be murdered Ryan and others. Jones also dishonor at the hands of enemy invaders, along an escape from the "hypocrisies and oppression convinced parents that hostile forces would with protecting both sexes' honor. In other of this world." Records seized by the Quebec convert captured children to fascism and would words, while the women and children would police showed that some members had just let them grow up being dummies. Due to perform self-immolation, the men (fathers, personally donated over US$1 million to the these arguments, 909 Temple members were husbands and sons) would charge against the cult's leader, Joseph Di Mambro. forced to commit mass suicide. attackers, facing certain death. Also in October 1994, a three-month-old In 1303 AD, Ala-ud-din Khilji, the baby named Emmanuel Dutoit was killed at the 2. Balinese People Who Committed Murder- Muslim Sultan of Delhi, besieged Chittor Fort, group's centre in Morin Heights, Quebec. The Suicide to Avoid the Humiliation of so Rani Padmini, the queen of Chittor, led all baby had been stabbed repeatedly with a Surrender (Bali - 1906) the royal ladies (around 700 women) and their wooden stake. It is believed that Di Mambro children into a bonfire in order to protect ordered his murder, due to the fact that he On September 14, 1906, Puputan was themselves from the Delhi's lustful army. identified the baby as the Anti-Christ. committed by Balinese people to avoid being With their womenfolk dead, the men of captured and enslaved by the Dutch invaders. Chittor had nothing to live for, so they decided Continued on Page 53 To perform Puputan, the Raja dressed in their to perform Saka. Each soldier got dressed in traditional white cremation garments and kesari robes and turbans. Armed with courage Christmas Is The Saddest and commanded that all valuables be burned. Then they fought with the vastly powerful array of the Loneliest Time of the Year For everyone, from the youngest child to the wives Sultan until all of them perished. Millions. See Why and What You and priests, marched ceremoniously toward the A second and third Jauhar took place in aggressors. Chittor in 1535 and 1568, which saw the Can Do To Help in The December When the procession was face to face obliteration of entire Rajput lineages. 2013 Edition of The ‘X’ Chronicles with the Dutch force, the head priest thrust a Newspaper.