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Suicide at Saipan: How Many? September 29, 2012

Posted by Beachcombing in : Contemporary
Suicide at Saipan: How Many?

The most famous act of mass suicide in the twentieth century, are probably the extraordinary deaths that followed on the fall of Nazi Germany and the Jones Town massacre. However, one localised example from the Second World War in Asia trumps both of these in horror and intensity. Though not a ‘home’ island, Saipan had [...]