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List of Mass Suicides of the 20th and 21st Centuries
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The chilling story of the Jonestown massacre
Jim Jones Waco siege One of the mass suicide sites of the Order of the Solar Temple Leader of Heaven's Gate Site of a mass suicide of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments group Shakahola mass graves
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The chilling story of the Jonestown massacre
Overview of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the 1978 massacre at Jonestown, Guyana.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Ruins of Masada
The ancient historian Josephus told of a mass suicide among the rebel Jewish Zealots...
© Elizabeth Rubianes Minin
Jim Jones
Leader of the Peoples Temple Jim Jones.
AP/Shutterstock.com
Waco siege
Flames engulfing the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ending a standoff...
Susan Weems/AP Images
One of the mass suicide sites of the Order of the Solar Temple
A burned-down house belonging to members of the Order of the Solar Temple in Cheiry...
© Damien Meyer—AFP/Getty Images
Leader of Heaven's Gate
Marshall Applewhite, the leader Heaven's Gate, speaking in a video recording.
Brooks Kraft LLC—Sygma/Getty Images
Site of a mass suicide of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments group
Ugandan policemen putting up a sign telling people to keep out of the church grounds...
© Alexander Joe—AFP/Getty Images
Shakahola mass graves
An officer of Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations patrolling the mass-grave...
© Yasuyoshi Chiba—AFP/Getty Images
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