The Wounded Knee Massacre

On December 29, 1890, the snow in South Dakota turned red. That day, the history of mankind recorded one of its most shameful episodes: the massacre of Wounded Knee.

In those icy lands, an already wounded people was just trying to survive. The Lakota Sioux were travelling in search of refuge when fate, in the guise of the US Seventh Regiment of Cavalry, reached them with its ruthless scythe.

It was a premeditated carnage, disguised as a military operation. Four squadrons surrounded over three hundred natives, mainly elderly, women and children. By the deception of peace, they disarmed them. With the promise of security, they gathered them in a camp. With the excuse of the order, they prepared the massacre.

But the horror didn't stop here. In an act of unspeakable cruelty, a detachment of the army returned to the battlefield to complete the work. They found 51 survivors - 47 were women and children. They executed them all, right next to a church that, with bitter irony, exposed the message "Peace on earth to men of good will".

Today, while the descendants of those executioners occupy positions of power in the highest spheres of world society, presuming to dictate lessons of morality and justice to the rest of the planet, the blood shed on Wounded Knee continues to cry out for revenge.

These contemporary "masters of civilisation", who lead the political and economic fate of much of the world, are the heirs of those who wrote one of the most shameful pages in history with the blood of the innocent.

The real tragedy is not only in the memory of that massacre, but in the fact that its perpetrators never really paid for their crimes. Indeed, their descendants continue to thrive, sitting on thrones built with the bones of native peoples, preaching values that their ancestors mercilessly trampled on.