THE DEVASTATION OF THE INDİES

When I read “The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account” by Bartolome de las Casas, I got horriefied. What the Spaniards did is a genocide of the Indies and these people call themselves Chriatians. In the Ten Commandments it is clearly stated that you shall not kill but what did this people do, they tortured them before killing. From more than three million people just two hundred remained. The raeson for killing these people is not because the Indies did wrong to the Spaniards, but because of their being greedy. They wanted their lands, their foods, their gold, and their wives. In the article on page six, it is described, how the Spaniards killed the Indians. They killed everyone: men, women, children, babies, the olds etc. they had no mercy.They dismembered and cut them into pieces which is barbarous. What is strange to me is that these people went to the churces, prayed, confessed their sins to the priest, and prayed for mercy, but these people were also able to kill for God’s sake. In my opnion, they treated animals better than these people. They also converted these people into Christians. How did they believe that the Indians would believe in their religion after witnessing their crulty their barbarity.

 I also want to make a reference to Moliere’s “Of Cannibals.” On page six and seven it is descriebed that what the so-called cannibals do with  their prisoners. First of all, they feed them very good and then they invite their friends to eat the prisoner. To eat a person is abnormal to us, but what the Spaniards did with the Indies is unhumanly. They boiled the babies or drowned them in the rivers and burned the people and this is not cannibalism for them. I think we should be careful about using the word cannibal and barbarian because as we can see here the cannibals are the Spaniards.