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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[–]Noam_ChomskyPirate Party 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Atlantic magazine? Wat?

Pretty sure Jim Jones was a performing MK ULTRA experiments off of US soil.

https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2021/01/24/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-jim-jones-was-a-cia-operative-conducting-mind-control-experiments/

The source of the “Kool-Aid Suicide” stories was the U.S. State Department, which presented the story immediately after the “suicides” were reported as though it was the only obvious truth. A U.S. Army spokesman pronounced with complete authority, “No autopsies are needed. The cause of death is not an issue here.” The bodies were then allowed to rot in the jungle. Despite the lack of need for autopsies, Dr. C. Leslie Mootoo, the top Guyanese pathologist, was at Jonestown hours after the deaths, and, refusing the assistance of U.S. pathologists, accompanied the teams that examined the bodies. His conclusions? Dr. Mootoo found fresh needle marks at the back of the left shoulder blades on 80 to 90 percent of the victims. Others had been shot or strangled. A surviving witness stated that those who resisted were forced by armed guards to comply. Dr. Mootoo’s opinion, and that of the Guyanese grand jury investigating Jonestown, was that all but three (only two of which were suicides) were murdered by “persons unknown.”

TLDR: all but three (only two of which were suicides) were murdered by “persons unknown.”

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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.