Guyana Tragedy

I personally can't understand mass suicides myself. But I guess you can be brainwashed into anything. Whether it is buying a new product on the market to commiting suicide.

Thirty years after the Jonestown, Guyana tragedy, the mass suicide is being revisited by television channels in the U.S.

This is where `drink the kool-aid.` got it's name from.

MSNBC on Sunday night aired its episode that included interviews with cult leader James Warren Jones, aka Jim Jones` son, who lives in California now. It also focused on the other survivors of the tragedy who managed to escape while showing the gruesome footage of the hundreds of dead bodies strewn about in the Guyana jungle.


Jim Jones forced his American followers to drink a cyanide-laced kool-aid following a visit by U.S. congressional representative Leo Ryan and several members of the media on November 18, 1978.

Of the 909 who died, 303 were children, killed by Jones' loyalists, who used syringes to squirt cyanide down their throats. Now that is sick I can't even imagine the evilness that is apart of that person to do that to an innocent child.