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by dwyer 2775 days ago
The author didn't say "most", she puts the number murdered at 300. Either way most people rightly describe the incident as a massacre.
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just the quote I was commenting on:

> When people refer to the Jonestown massacre as a “mass suicide,” I am enraged. It was nothing of the kind. Although some of Jones’s most zealous followers may have consumed the poison voluntarily, the vast majority were murdered outright and against their will.