Puputan
Balinese term for a mass ritual suicide in preference to facing the humiliation of surrender / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Puputan is a Balinese term for a mass ritual suicide in preference to facing the humiliation of surrender. It originally seems to have meant a last desperate attack against a numerically superior enemy.[1] Notable puputans in the history of Bali occurred in 1906 and 1908, when the Balinese were being subjugated by the Dutch.