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The main building contains historical artifacts, ranging from a 2,200-year-old stone sarcophagus to photographs of the 1906 puputan; upstairs is a collection of day-to-day and household items.
At the farthest corner of Puputan Square, you’ll find the Bali Museum (Museum Negeri Propinsi Bali).
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.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Ngurah Rai and all 96 of his followers were killed in what is regarded as Bali’s last puputan.
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.
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