Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
During the Dutch conquest of what would become Indonesia, entire localities would commit collective suicide by marching unarmed into Dutch fire when it became clear that they had been defeated. The practice was called puputan and was almost reminiscent of premodern Indian sati:
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@hamud
1908?! that's basically yesterday.
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