Then a couple of women brought out these trays of cups of what they said was cyanide-laced Kool-Aid, or Flavor-Aid—whichever they had. Everybody drank it. If we didn’t drink it, we were forced to drink it. If we ran, we thought we’d be shot. At the end of it, we were wondering, Why aren’t we dead?

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I mean that fits with the witness testimony pretty well that they poisoned the children (wrongly telling the parents it would be a pain-free death) but many of the adults had to be held down and injected by force and they shot those who ran away.

There's an audio recording of the killings but I don't recommend listening to it unless you're really doubtful. You hear the children screaming and then the woman arguing who is the first to be held down and injected.