Monday, June 27, 2011

3 Suicide Worst in History

1. The People’s Temple

Founded in the late 1970's, under the leadership of Jim Jones, the cult is separate from the world to live alone in a forest in South America. Following a number of complaints, in 1978, U.S. Congressman, Leo Ryan visited Jonestown area in a fact-finding mission. When Ryan would leave Jonestown, eighteen members of the cult who want to leave the cult was trying to go with it, which also became a time when violence erupted.
Cult members opened fire on those who try to leave the cult. Congressman Ryan, three journalists and a cult member who tried to flee, were killed. Eleven people were injured. Several hours after the incident, ordered the leader of the cult members to commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide of potassium.Children died first, the baby was killed by the poison that is inserted into the mouth with a straw. After that, more than nine hundred people, including children, poisoned themselves.


2. David Koresh

 
in the 1990s, the group attracted attention because of mass death is the David Koresh cult.
When security forces intend to conduct examination on a farm in Texas on February 28, 1993, cult members opened fire on them. The siege which lasted for 51 days were carried out. When a member of the security forces tried to enter the farm at day 51, the smoke suddenly began billowing.
Security forces later announced that David Koresh had burn agriculture, and various traps are installed in various places of agriculture has changed the place into a hell, where about ninety people burned to death.

3. The Heaven’s Gate

Deviant cult made headlines back in 1997, when forty men who wore black T-shirts and sneakers committed mass suicide in northern San Diego. Aged between 26 and 72 years, they had killed himself on the belief that the comet Hale-Bopp, who was crossing the earth, will take them to a higher level of evolution. Below is how they thought contained in their Internet sites,
"Good news, because the old members in the Evolutionary Level above human has made it clear to us that the Halle-Bopp's approach is a 'sign' that we've been waiting for .... Period of 22 years in the room on earth finally nearing the end of 'graduation' from the Human Evolutionary Level.
We are happily prepared to leave 'this world' and go with the crew of Ti (Ti refers to Bonnie Lu Trusdale one of the founders who died of cancer in 1985).

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