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Elsass var næstsidste gæst i Jonestown
Elsass var næstsidste gæst i Jonestown
”I mange år har jeg ikke kunnet komme mig over, at jeg blev forført af Jim Jones og hans tempel til ikke at forudse den massakre, der nærmede sig,” skriver den danske psykolog Peter Elsass om det uhyggelige kollektive selvmord 18. november 1978 i Jonestown-kolonien i Guyana, hvor 914 omkom. ”Jeg har skammet mig og har forholdt mig tavs om, hvad jeg oplevede. Det, der har rystet mig, er sådan set ikke, at jeg selv kunne have risikeret livet, som de andre 914 mennesker gjorde, men snarere at jeg ikke anede uråd.” Stærk tekst i Weekendavisen.
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 19, 1978 bodies of more than 400 members of the Jim Jones' sect "Temple of people" lie down, in Jonestown, where the Cult leader Jim Jones had established the Peoples Temple. - In one of the most dramatic mass murder-suicides of modern history, 914 adults and children from a US cult died in the jungle of the small South American country of Guyana on November 18, 1978. Five years earlier, Jones had moved his "church" from San Francisco to the former British colony of Guyana in the north of the Latin American continent. The self-styled reverend - - who passed himself off as the reincarnation of Lenin, Jesus Christ and Buddha - - had built a strong following since the 1950s, mostly attracting poor African Americans. (Photo by - / AFP)
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