Syringes surround one of the vats used to mix up the poisoned drink used in the Jonestown mass suicide, as seen in this Nov. 26, 1978, photo. Bottles of poison belonging to members of the Peoples ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.

These survivors, due to happenstance or their own efforts, were all away from the Jonestown community in Guyana when Jones ordered his followers – starting with the young children – to drink flavored ...