A group of university academics is expected to call on the United States government today to release documents about the mass suicide of over nine hundred members of a religious sect in Guyana exactly twenty years ago.
The tragedy took place at Jonestown, a community established by Jim Jones, to accomodate members of his People's Temple sect.
Most of the people who died were United States citizens.
Three hundred of the victims were children.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service