This is Holocaust!

Genocide of the Natives

In 1492, the Europeans, led by Columbus, invaded the new continent and its islands, later called the United States, and pursued a policy of indigenous genocide to secure their undisputed dominance.

“The horrific savagery of the Spanish Conquistadors is well known in the United States, where they destroyed 15 million Indians over a fifty-year period, bringing the total to 12 million, according to conservative historians. “Areas such as Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and the coast of Venezuela which were formerly densely populated, turned to be completely depopulated.” Says Ernst Mandel. (1)

The Movies made of Christopher Columbus try to portray him as a peaceful and amicable person who has treated the Native Americans respectfully, and only some of his companions have made mistakes and committed those barbaric acts against the natives. But the fact is, when Columbus entered the Americas, its Native American population was over 30 millionو While we are currently facing a population of two million; and that the slogan “a good (native) Indian is a dead (native) Indian” was coined by Columbus.

Columbian Holocaust

۱) Haiti

It is the Island that Christopher Columbus founded on December 6, 1492, and called it “Hispaniola” (actually Hispaniola in Haiti and the present-day Dominican Republic). Hispaniola was a populous island with an estimated population of 900,000 at the time of Columbus. The European invasion of the island began to find gold, and in 1508 only 60,000 of these people were alive. In 1533 the native population was reported to be only 4,000, in 1550 only 500 remained, and by the middle of the eighteenth century there was no trace of them. (2)

۲) Cuba

On this densely populated island, in 1492, a bad omen named Christopher Columbus set foot, and three centuries later left little trace of its indigenous people. The current population of Cuba is a mixture of the descendants of the Spaniards, French, Germans and African and Chinese slaves. (3)

Bartolomé de las Casas, reflects some of the horrendous crimes of the Spaniards in Cuba to some extent. In describing the Spanish treatment of the natives, he writes:

“Newborn babies die early; Because their mothers could not breastfeed them due to hard work and extreme hunger. That is why during my stay in Cuba, 7,000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their children in despair … Thus are dying husbands in the mines, women of hard work and children of starving … My eyes witnessed such acts against human nature that now that I’m writing, my whole body is trembling … “(4)

Like Columbus, the massacres of the Conquistadors were widespread and unbelievable.

۳) Mexico

Cortés was the most famous conquistador who arrived Mexico at 1519 with seven hundred people. The population of Mexican Indians was 25 million that year, which dropped to one million in 1605. totally, the Conquistadors destroyed a sum of 75 million Indians in half a century, replacing them with 240,000 Spaniards. (5)

There are statistics of other genocides and crimes against the natives in other parts of the Americas. To understand the depth of these crimes, suffice it to say that the statistics of C. Wells (historian) show that after Christopher Columbus entered the Americas in less than a century, 95 million Indigenous people were massacred by savage colonizers.

References:

(۱,۲,۳) Jewish and Persian Plutocrats: Colonization of Britain and Iran, vol.1, Abdollah Shahbazi, (1998), Tehran: Institute of Political Studies and Research

(۴) A people’s history of the United States: 1492-present, Howard Zinn, (2015), London: Routledge.

(۵) America’s hidden and untold history, Nasir Saheb Kholgh, (2005), Tehran: Hilal