Puputan

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Puputan (Balinese: ᬧᬸᬧᬸᬢᬦ᭄) 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.

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