The most terrible collective suicides in history

History has recorded many horrific collective suicides in numbers up to several hundred to tens of thousands of people, including children, women .

Listed the most scary collective suicides in history

In 73, 960 Sicarii Jews committed suicide because they did not want to be captured by the Romans.They were cornered by the Romans on the top of the Masada rock plateau.

Here, the people were cornered, there was no escape, so the men ended up killing the lives of others, destroying all their possessions and eventually committing suicide to avoid falling into enemy hands.

In 1336, the ancient Pilenai fortress in Lithuania was the place where the macabre mass suicide took place.After being attacked by the enemy and knowing that it was impossible to defend the fortress, the knights in Pilenai decided to burn it down with all their possessions and mass kill themselves together.

According to the document, about 4,000 men protect this ancient fortress and their whole family died together.

A horrific collective death occurred in Denpasar, Bali in 1906. At that time, the Netherlands carried out military intervention here.

When Dutch soldiers entered the palace, they saw a horrifying sight of all women, children, priests and men killing each other and committing suicide so as not to fall into the hands of the enemy.It is estimated that more than 1,000 people died in that event.

In June 1944, US troops landed on Saipan and had a fierce battle with the Japanese army.After the US military took control of the area north of Saipan, the Japanese side felt the defeat was approaching.

According to some documents, the Emperor then ordered all Japanese soldiers on the island to commit suicide rather than surrender in humiliation.Accordingly, thousands of Japanese soldiers planted themselves into a suicide cliff.An estimated 10,000 Japanese soldiers committed suicide during the event.