实际上白人对北美印第安人的屠杀和种族灭绝前后持续几百年,人类历史上空前绝后。二战以后对此的谴责被对纳粹德国大屠杀的控诉声浪所掩盖。实际上二者的规模和程度完全不成比例(更不用提发生在中国土地上的事情)。连美国著名作家和历史学家普利策获奖作家约翰·托兰都证实印第安保留地是纳粹集中营的师父。在他的著作《希特勒传》中写到,希特勒说他建立集中营的想法和种族灭绝的做法,大部分源于他对美国和英国模仿。 In fact, the Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer John Toland wrote that Hitler was inspired in part by the Indian reservation system – a creation of the United States. Toland wrote in his book, 《Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography》 “He admired the camps for the Indians in the wild west, and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages(红皮肤的渣)who could not be tamed by captivity.”
一个多星期以前加拿大BC省卫生厅长Dr. Bonnie Henry 难得说了中肯话。: “There are no words that can make right a deliberate and intentional system that was designed to assimilate and extinguish indigenous people". 虽然也是做做样子,但总比大部分加拿大政治人物不但自己不悔过,还把锅甩到太平洋彼岸的另一个国家,要好多了。注意这句话里面我特意加黑了的斜体字。他说明这种屠杀和种族灭绝不但持续时间长达数百年,而且是精心策划和预谋并长期一直坚持下来的。在社会当中我们知道一个连续10多年坚持杀人的连环杀手,他的罪行和一时情绪激动故意杀人的罪犯,性质是完全不一样的。
“You think you own whatever land you walk on “你觉得你拥有你所驻足的每一方土地,
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim 大地只不过是你能占有的死物。
But I know every rock and tree and creature 但我知道每块石头、每棵树、每个生物,
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name 都有生命,有灵性,有名字。
You think the only people who are people 你以为外表与思考方式与你同出一辙的
Are the people who look and think like you 才称之为人类,
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger 但假如你跟随陌生人的脚步,
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew,” 你就会有意想不到的收获。
(以下我用英文进一步阐述)
That is the lyrics of “Colours of the Wind”, a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for the Walt Disney’s animated feature film, Pocahontas (1995).
In historical perspective, England and other European powers had used their definition of “no man’s land” or terra nullius (as the Natives and Aborigines were not considered as people) to justify territorial conquests.
As history is written by the conquerors and victors, the West had successfully fooled the world by camouflaging or turning atrocious history into stories of valour and humanity.
Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent, had coined the term “genocide” in 1944. By genocide he meant “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group”.
In truth, the most atrocious and devastating genocides in the history of humanity were perpetrated by the European, the American, and later the Japanese imperialists, which include the two world wars, and the extermination of some 6 million European Jews. Similarly, the Indians were not spared under the rules of the British, where tens of millions died. From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered almost 6,000,000 Chinese.
But the worst of genocide took place in North America, Australia and New Zealand.
The genocidal activities in these countries were not distance history. For it had perpetuated into the 21st Century, with the United States and its allies waging many unjustified wars against helpless nations.
“In 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere. By 1691, the population of indigenous Americans had declined by 90-95 percent, or by around 130 million people,” wrote McKenna, Erin, and Scott L. Pratt.
When the British arrived in Australia in 1788, there were an estimated 1.25 million (which could very well be understated)Aborigines in Australians. The massacres of the Aborigines ended in the 1920 leaving no more than 60,000.
Truth be told, the atrocious acts of genocide cannot be undone. But governments of the so-called Western liberal democracy and their propagandist machines must, not only come to terms with, but learn from the dark side of their history, so that history would not repeat itself.
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