In the exerpt from "Destruction of the Indies", Bartolome` de Las Casas states very clearly the plight of the natives that lived there. He stated the Spaniards commiting atrocities such as "ripping up their bellies, tore[tearing] them alive in peices.", taking babies from their mothers and "dasht the brains of these innocents out on the rocks" among many others. Bartolome started that their actions were reminicent of "tygers, wovles and lions", as "inhuman" and "detestable".
I could not agree more. I find it encouraging that there were some men who saw the spaniards deeds for what they were. There is no excuse for treating any member of humanity like that, as "filth of the earth". They showed not neglect, but outright cruelty, giving the native people less respect than one might give roadkill. I find it even more despicable that they attacked and tortured people who saw them as gods. The natives would have treated them with respect and reverance, and for no reason besides the ovious taking pleasure in others people pain, they were decimated by a force technologically advanced, but morally bankrupt.
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