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This time the Balinese were overwhelmed and thousands were killed, some in a suicidal march towards enemy guns, a ritual death in battle known in the Balinese language as puputan.
At the farthest corner of Puputan Square, you’ll find the Bali Museum (Museum Negeri Propinsi Bali).
On a signal from the raja, one of his priests stabbed him with a kris (knife), and then, pausing only to stab their children first, the rest of the royal party began a puputan, either killing themselves or running suicidally towards the enemy.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Ngurah Rai and all 96 of his followers were killed in what is regarded as Bali’s last puputan.
The big area of grass south of Jalan Surapati is Alun-alun Puputan (Puputan Square), site of the puputan or mass suicide in 1906 of the Raja of Badung’s court (see page 19).