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survivors, not every villager was aware that their meals were poisoned. After everyone finished eating, they all returned to their homes and went to bed, dying in their sleep. When Butaog's wife and two children refused to eat the gruel, he murdered them with a machete before fatally stabbing himself in the abdomen with a knife.
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Sinasa was a village in a remote, mountainous area of Davao City, around 25 miles from city center. The inhabitants of the village – men, women, and children – were part of the Ata tribe. An estimated 200 Ata tribesmen lived in the mountainous villages near Davao in 1985. Their lifestyle typically
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