3rd week: Las Casas

In “A short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” who wrote by Bartolome de Las Casas, is an article that talks about killings and crimes. Las casas who was a historian was also a hero and always liked to see what the wrongdoers do are wrong. In this article he mainly talks about how the Spaniards were cruel to others. The Spaniards were the ones who controlled all the places. They treated people so badly and they also massmadered lots of innocent people. They used people as slaves and beat them to death. For example, on page 45 of this article says, “The Spaniards decided to organize a massacre or punishment in order to inspire fear and terror in all the people of all the territory”.  The article goes and says, the Spanish soldiers unsheathed their sword and slaughtered the poor innocents which results no one to escape from the masmadering. Really the Spaniards were very cruel to the Americas which were innocent people, but the fact was that no help was available at that time. I did not know anything about this situation and I never heard that we had such a terrific and horror killings that took place thousands of years ago. I learned the holocaust which millions of people died, but I questioned myself about why we were not taught this too when we were in high school because I remember from the school I graduated from, the holocaust is the number lesson you could take, but I have never been in a class that was tough of this massacre that the Spaniards did to the Americas. Indeed it is sad to look just one problem where people can focus on looking into more problems. In this article, ‘A short Account of the Destruction on the Indies”, Bartolome de Las Casas, brought as awareness about what happened during the time of the Spaniards. Reading this article helped me gain more experience. As we know that more people are not focused on the problems that we have today like global warming which is a big problem. This is the same thing. People did not pay much attention to this ugly problem that happened thousands of hundreds years ago. I hope people to look and to pay attention to all the problems in this world because in my opinion, any problem can be solved.