List of Mass Suicides of the 20th and 21st Centuries: Quick Facts

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Ruins of Masada

Charred remains of a house in Cheiry, Switzerland, with burned debris and a scorched car inside roofless walls; green fields and a village are visible in the background.

Marshall H. Applewhite appears in a close-up video screen grab, raising one finger and looking directly at the camera, with a blue curtain in the background.

A Ugandan policeman and another man attach a handwritten sign reading health hazard keep out of bounds to a post on church grounds, with people and buildings in the background.

A man in a vest walks among freshly dug graves in red earth at a mass-grave site in Shakahola, Kenya, with a thatched hut and dense greenery in the background.

The chilling story of the Jonestown Massacre

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