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Музыка: | White Stains |
Native Americans genocide
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In 1643 [..], the Dutch governor, according to some accounts not only exasperated but inebriated, ordered the massacre of a number of Wappinger people who had run to the Dutch for protection from raiding Mohawks. The Indian refugees were lulled by friendly Dutch treatment for several days, and then were attacked by the Dutch while they slept [..], and eighty heads of men, women, and children were brought back to Manhattan, to Fort Amsterdam, where a New Amsterdam dowager played kickball with them in the street. A captive Hackensack Indian was publicly tortured, charged a contemporary pamphleteer, by being skinned in strips and fed with his own flesh while the 'poor, naked, simple creature' stubbornly tried to keep up his death song, until at last, flayed from his fingers to his knees, castrated, dragged through the streets but still alive, he was placed on a millstone and his head beaten off by the soldiers. The Dutch governor looked on throughout and 'laughed right heartily'... http://www.philjohn.com/papers/pjkd_ga12.htmlПривет Миша
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