“They built large pyres and burned them in groups of 13, in honor of Jesus Christ and the 12 apostles; they piled firewood on the pyre and burned them alive. Others had dry straw tied all over their bodies, and they were set on fire.”

Bartolomé de las Casas, the Spanish priest who was horrified by the massacres carried out by the genocidal Spanish empire against the indigenous peoples of Latin America.

"Those evil Christians would enter the villages and spare neither children nor the elderly nor pregnant women nor women who had just given birth; they tore everything to pieces. They would make bets on who could split a man in half with a single slash, or cut off his head with a single slash, or rip out his entrails. They would grab babies from their mothers’ breasts by the legs and smash their heads against the stones.”

“Once I myself saw four or five people burning on the grills, screaming at the top of their lungs… and they were keeping the captain awake, so he ordered them to be drowned; but the sheriff—who was worse than the executioner who was burning them—refused to drown them; instead, he shoved sticks into their mouths with his own hands to stop them from screaming and stoked the fire until they were slowly roasted, just as they wanted.”

Before the native leader Hatuey—the First Rebel of the Americas—was burned alive at the stake by the genocidal Spanish imperialists, he was asked if he wanted to convert to Christianity and go to heaven… Hatuey replied that he would rather go to hell than have to look at such cruel people.

The colonization of the Americas killed at least 56 million Native Americans… yet this imperialist genocide became a “National Day” in the fascist Spanish state.

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