Jonestown Massacre Memory Fades in Guyana

Socialist Christian

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Tue Nov-18-03 07:20 PM
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Jonestown Massacre Memory Fades in Guyana

Edited on Tue Nov-18-03 07:51 PM by Socialist Christian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3404075,00.html
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Market vendors sold plantains and secondhand clothing Tuesday as children skipped home from school - business as usual in Guayana where the deaths of more than 900 U.S. cult members a quarter century ago are a distant American tragedy.

No memorials were held for victims of the Jonestown massacre, a horror that is barely known to half the population that hadn't yet been born on Nov. 18, 1978.

``I've never heard about Jonestown,'' said Naresh Bhiro, a 21-year-old coconut vendor. ``I think I heard my parents, the older people, talking about Jonestown, but I don't know what it is.''

Others remember only the vague outlines of what happened at the remote jungle compound.

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Tue Nov-18-03 07:50 PM
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1. Seems many in the USA don't pay it much mind

either- there's plenty of Kool-aid peddler's around nowadays....Just turn on Faux news.

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