[Knight Island]This report is full of blood and tears-Knight Island- Overseas Network

On March 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a report on its official website, “Historical Facts and Realistic Evidence of the Genocide of Indians in the United States.” The full text is about 10,000 words, and the material is informative and shocking.

Seeing the news, a friend subconsciously asked: Is this China’s counterattack? Because everyone knows that the US and the West have been manipulating public opinion, spreading and hyping the so-called “genocide” lies in Xinjiang.

Uncle Yaodao said that there are fundamental differences between the two: not long ago, in an article published on the island, it was mentioned that even the always critical media such as The Economist said they would never use the word “genocide” because It “absolutely does not apply to Xinjiang”; and the systematic genocide of Indians by the United States is a solid fact supported by a large amount of historical data.

Uncle Dao compiled some of the contents of this report. Read every word with blood and tears.

(Source: Official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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Genocide (genocide), originally refers to “the destruction of a country or a people”. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly recognized “genocide” as a crime under international law; in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group who commits one of the following acts:

(1) Killing a member of the group; (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to a member of the group; (3) Deliberately subjecting the group to a living condition that destroys all or part of its life; (4) Enforcement of measures intended to prevent births within the group; (5) Forcible transfer of children of the group to another group.

The U.S. ratified the convention in 1988, and U.S. domestic law has explicit provisions for genocide. However, according to historical records and media reports, since the founding of the United States, the United States has systematically deprived Indians of their right to life and basic political, economic, and cultural rights through means such as massacres, expulsions, and forced assimilation, in an attempt to physically and culturally eliminate this group. Today, the Indians still face a serious existential crisis.

The American “Foreign Policy” magazine pointed out that crimes against Native Americans fully conform to the definition of genocide in current international law.

For example, the Declaration of Independence, issued on July 4, 1776, clearly states: “He (referring to the King of England) incited civil strife among us, and tried his best to incite those ruthless and uncivilized Indians to kill and plunder the inhabitants of our frontiers”, Publicly slandering Native Americans as a “ruthless, uncivilized” race.

During the American wars from 1775 to 1865, the American rulers were eager to get rid of the plantation economic status as a vassal of the European colonialist economy, expanded the territorial area, launched attacks, slaughtered the Indians, and occupied their land. According to statistics, after 1776, the United States The government launched more than 1,500 raids on Indian tribes;

In 1814, the United States promulgated a decree that the U.S. government would reward 50 to 100 dollars for each Indian head covering; the Homestead Act was promulgated in 1862, and then white people went to the area where the Indians were located to slaughter; the then U.S. government Leaders openly stated that “good boots can be made from Indian hides”, “Indians must be exterminated or driven where we do not go”, “Indians must be exterminated quickly” and “only dead Indians”. People are good Indians.”

In 1893, Frederick Turner admitted in “The Importance of the Frontier in American History”: “Every frontier was acquired by a series of wars against the Indians.”

(Source: CCTV)

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Under the leadership of the U.S. government, massacres against Indians have emerged one after another.

For example, the first California governor, Peter Burnett, proposed a war of extermination against Native Americans. At that time, an Indian head or scalp could be exchanged for $5, and the average daily wage at that time was only 25 cents. In California alone, the Indian population dropped from 150,000 to 30,000 in less than 30 years from 1846 to 1873.

Indians were slaughtered (Source: CCTV)

In the notorious 1864 Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, because a minority of Indians opposed the signing of a land transfer agreement, American Pastor John Chivington led 700 American armed soldiers to raid and shoot the Indians, scalping women and children , cut off his head, and returned to Denver to parade in the streets; 2/3 of the dead were women and children, and no one was responsible for it. The U.S. government has reached a compensation agreement with the descendants of the tribe, but it has not been fulfilled so far.

In 1830, the United States passed the Indian Relocation Act, which legally deprived Indian tribes of their right to live in the eastern United States, forcing about 100,000 Indians to migrate from their southern homeland to the west of the Mississippi River. Overwork or disease and plague died on the way, and the Indian population dropped sharply, forming a veritable “Blood and Tears Road”.

Hungry and sick Indians (Source: CCTV)

Tribes who refused to relocate were subjected to military conquests, violent evictions and even massacres by the U.S. government. In 1839, the Texas government demanded the Indians to evacuate immediately, otherwise they would destroy their property and destroy their tribe, and a large number of Cherokees who refused to submit were shot and killed; in 1863, the US military implemented a “scorched earth policy” against the Navajo tribe to burn their Under the coercion of houses, burning their crops, killing their livestock, and destroying their properties, the Navajos were escorted by armed forces to walk hundreds of kilometers to the eastern New Mexico reservation.

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States writes: “Because of the forceful deportation of the last Indians in the eastern region by the United States government, only a very small number of Indians remained in the region as citizens of individual nations, or went into hiding during the forceful deportation. those individual Indians.”

After the westward movement that “promoted the formation and development of the American national spirit” described by American historians, the budding American civilization was destroyed, and the Indians, as one of the major human races, faced the situation of being completely wiped out.

Let’s take a look at the comparison of numbers: Before the arrival of the white colonists in 1492, there were 5 million Indians, which dropped sharply to 600,000 in 1800; the number of Native Americans in 1900 was only 237,000, including Pequette, Mohican, Massachusetts, etc. More than a dozen tribes were completely wiped out; from 1800 to 1900, the number of American Indians decreased by more than half, and the proportion of the total population of the United States dropped to 0.31%…

The Indian population in North America has plummeted (Source: CCTV)

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In addition to physical extinction, there is also cultural extinction.

Bancroft, a well-known American historian of the 19th century, said that Native Americans “are inferior to whites in reasoning and moral character, and this inferiority is not only specific to the individual, but is related to their organization, the entire ethnic group. Characteristics”.

Since the 1870s, the U.S. government has carried out “forced assimilation” of the Indians. The measures include the complete deprivation of the autonomy of Indian tribes, the destruction of Indian reservations, the imposition of American “citizenship” status on Indians, the eradication of Indians’ ethnic consciousness and Tribal identity, etc.

The cultural genocide of Indians in the United States (Source: CCTV)

Beginning with the Civilization Fund Act of 1819, the United States established or subsidized boarding schools across the country to force Indian children to enroll. Historically, there were 367 boarding schools in the United States. By 1925, 60,889 Indian children were forced to go to school; by 1926, the proportion of Indian children enrolled was as high as 83%, but the total number is still unclear; Children are handed over to whites, perpetuating policies of assimilation and depriving them of cultural identity.

When the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was passed, the United States recognized that “a large number of Indian children have been transferred without permission to non-Indian families and institutions, resulting in the fragmentation of Indian families”.

“Boarding school”, do you have any impressions of island friends? Last year, the remains of more than 1,100 Aboriginal children were unearthed from Canada’s “boarding school” site, which Trudeau said was a “dark and shameful chapter” in Canadian history.

“Boarding School” Indian Children’s Grave (Source: CCTV)

In fact, there is no difference between the American and Canadian brothers on this point. 87% of state-level history textbooks do not address Indigenous history after 1900, according to a report by the Native American Education Organization, Scholars commented, “Information about Native Americans is systematically purged from mainstream American media and popular culture,” “U.S. Schools are taught about Indians full of inaccurate information.”

Hundreds of years after the systematic genocide against the Indians, the U.S. government has remained largely unchanged. Until now, about 310 Native American reservations are still distributed in remote and barren lands, and some reservations are even located in toxic or nuclear waste dumps: the Navajo Nation Reservation, the largest Indian tribe in the United States, about 1 / 4 The bodies of women and some infants contained high levels of radioactive substances; in the 40 years before 2009, the US government conducted a total of 928 nuclear tests in the Shoshone tribe area, resulting in about 620,000 tons of radioactive fallout, the result of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. After nearly 48 times.

Water pollution near Indian tribes (Source: CCTV)

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So far, American Indians are still facing a serious crisis of survival and development.

The data shows that among the various ethnic groups in the United States, Indians have the shortest life expectancy and the highest infant mortality rate, and the incidence of diabetes, chronic liver disease and alcohol dependence is 3.2 times, 4.6 times and 6.6 times the average in the United States; 2018 The data shows that the poverty rate of Indians is the highest among all minorities, at 25.4%, which is more than three times that of whites; according to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Indians are twice as likely to be imprisoned for petty crimes as other ethnic groups. The incarceration rate of Indian men is four times that of white men, and the incarceration rate of Indian women is six times that of white women. What is even more absurd is that many US government statistics completely ignore Indians, or classify them as “other”.

American Indian protests (Source: CCTV)

Criticism of the “genocide” of Indians in the United States continues. There is consensus in the academic community and appeals from the media, but the US government’s reflection is more like a “political show”, and it has not officially recognized that the atrocities committed by the United States against Indians are acts of genocide, and real change is still in the distance.

This is the source of tragedy. As the report concludes –

“The successive U.S. governments not only physically eliminated a large number of Indians, but also through systematic system design and bullying cultural suppression, the survival of the aborigines fell into an irreversible predicament, and the Indians’ culture was fundamentally damaged, life and spirit. Intergenerational survival is seriously threatened.

The slaughter, forced migration, cultural assimilation and unfair treatment of Indians in the United States constituted de facto genocide, fully in line with the definition of genocide in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and it has persisted for hundreds of years to this day. continue.

The U.S. government should abandon its hypocrisy and double standards on human rights, and take seriously the serious racial issues and crimes in its own country. “

Excerpt / Asuka Ayanami

Edit/Cloud Song

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