Our brothers and sisters of The Decolonial Thought Community in Mexico have taken up the concept of Genocide Memorial Day that is promoted by DIN. On October 12, 1492 Columbus the Criminal opened the doors of hell for the Indigenous people of the America. On October 12 they organize an event to commemorate the Indigenous Holocaust.<\/p>\n
The Indigenous Holocaust Memorial is an event that seeks to show a dissent, a disagreement with the narratives of submission that justify colonialism. Almost two centuries after the national liberation struggles and the end of the colonial administrations, these discourses still stand and sometimes, without any dispute. For that reason, it is important for us to disrupt this continuity, not only because of objective rigour but above all because we start from an ethico-critical position.<\/p>\n
Already in 1992, when the 500th anniversary of the misnamed “discovery” of America or “encounter” of two worlds was being celebrated, there was an intense intellectual debate about the pertinence of the word “encounter” because it concealed the violence behind the colonization process (which led to the elimination of approximately 60% of the Mesoamerican population during the 16th century) and the asymmetry of power between the components of the supposed hybrid or “mestizo” culture.<\/p>\n
In our state, Tlaxcala, the issue is even more complex. We are heirs of a people, altepetl,<\/em> that successfully resisted the expansionism of the triple alliance led by the Mexicas (Aztecs), and that did not miss the opportunity to establish an alliance with the European conquerors to free itself from such domination, which would undoubtedly brought some benefits after the fall of Aztec empire. However, this alliance was neither a peaceful process nor an easy consensus. There were, throughout all the process, tensions, such as the initial confrontations with the Spanish of which the Otom\u00ed people can give full faith; but in addition, there were those who disagreed with this alliance, perhaps the most symbolic example is X\u012bcoht\u00e9ncatl the young captain who was executed because of his dissent.<\/p>\n No one can judge the attempt of liberation of a people. However, afterwards, the Tlaxcala people joined the colonizing project of the Westerners and was a relative complice in the violence that it implied. It would take some time to understand that somehow, our people had participated in the construction of their new chains of oppression and material-cultural destruction, that is, the modern regimes of domination (Patriarchy\/Racism\/Capitalism) that appear in the context of the colonial encounter and will soon take on a global vocation shaping the modern world system.<\/p>\n For us, this event means the testimony of the presence of a critical ethos of Tlaxcala and an awareness that starts by denouncing the violence of human beings against human beings as well as a commitment to contribute to the destruction of the regimes of modern global domination. We therefore join in solidarity in the series of events called by the Decolonial\u00a0 International Network(DIN) as: “Genocide Memorial Day”.<\/p>\n The meeting will be attended by Ahmed Uddin from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a founding memberorganisation of DIN and initiator of the GMD.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Decolonial Thought Community<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [:es]El Memorial del holocausto ind\u00edgena es un evento que busca dar testimonio de un disenso, un desacuerdo con las narrativas de sumisi\u00f3n que justifican el colonialismo. A casi dos siglos despu\u00e9s de las luchas de liberaci\u00f3n nacional y del fin de las administraciones coloniales, dichos discursos siguen en pie y en ocasiones, sin disputa, por ello, para nosotros es importante disrumpir dicha continuidad, no s\u00f3lamente por fidelidad objetiva sino sobretodo porque partimos desde una posici\u00f3n \u00e9tico-cr\u00edtica.<\/p>\n Ya en 1992 cuando se celebraban los 500 a\u00f1os del mal llamado “descubrimiento” de Am\u00e9rica o “encuentro” de dos mundos, hubo un intenso debate intelectual acerca de la pertinencia de la palabra “encuentro” que encubr\u00eda la violencia detr\u00e1s del proceso de colonizaci\u00f3n (que llev\u00f3 a la eliminaci\u00f3n de apr\u00f3ximadamente el 60% de la poblaci\u00f3n mesoamericana durante el S. XVI) y la asimetr\u00eda de poder entre las componentes de la supuesta cultura h\u00edbrida o “mestiza”.<\/p>\n En nuestro estado, Tlaxcala, la cuesti\u00f3n es todav\u00eda mucho m\u00e1s compleja, somos herederos de un pueblo altepetl<\/em> que resisti\u00f3 exitosamente al expansionismo de la triple alianza liderada por los mexicas, y que no dejo pasar la oportunidad de establecer una alianza con los conquistadores europeos para liberarse de dicha dominaci\u00f3n, lo que indudablemente traer\u00eda algunos beneficios tributarios y de otra \u00edndole despu\u00e9s de la ca\u00edda de Tenochtitl\u00e1n, no obstante, dicha alianza no fue ni un proceso pac\u00edfico ni una suave decisi\u00f3n bajo un consenso total, hubo, durante todo el proceso tensiones, como los enfrentamientos iniciales con los espa\u00f1oles de los cuales el pueblo Otom\u00ed puede dar plena fe, pero adem\u00e1s, hubo quienes estuvieron en desacuerdo con dicha alianza, quiz\u00e1 el ejemplo m\u00e1s simb\u00f3lico sea X\u012bcoht\u00e9ncatl el joven qui\u00e9n fue ejecutado a causa de \u00a0su disenso.<\/p>\n Nadie puede juzgar el intento de liberaci\u00f3n de un pueblo, sin embargo, en lo posterior, el pueblo tlaxcalteca se uni\u00f3 al proyecto colonizador de los occidentales y fue complice relativo en la violencia que \u00e9ste implic\u00f3, pasar\u00eda un tiempo para comprender que de alguna forma, nuestro pueblo hab\u00eda participado en la construcci\u00f3n de sus nuevas cadenas de opresi\u00f3n y destrucci\u00f3n material-cultural, es decir, los reg\u00edmenes de dominaci\u00f3n modernos (Patriarcado\/Racismo\/Capitalismo) que aparecen al calor del encuentro colonial y que pronto cobrar\u00e1n una vocaci\u00f3n global moldeando el sistema-mundial moderno.<\/p>\n Para nosotros este evento significa testimonio de un ethos tlaxcalteca cr\u00edtico y una toma de consciencia que parte por la denuncia de la violencia del ser humano contra el ser humano adem\u00e1s el compromiso de contribuir a la destrucci\u00f3n de los regimenes de dominaci\u00f3n modernos globales, nos inscribimos por tanto solidariamente en la serie de eventos denominados como por la Red Internacional Decolonial como: \u201cGenocide Memorial Day\u201d.<\/p>\n Nuestras Hermanas y Hermanos de la Comunidad de Pensamiento Decolonial en M\u00e9xico se han identificado con el concepto del D\u00eda Memorial del Genocidio promovido por la DIN. En Octubre 12 de 1492, Col\u00f3n, criminalmente, abri\u00f3 las puertas del infierno para los pueblos indigenas de Am\u00e9rica. En octubre 12 organizan un evento para conmemorar el Holocausto Indigena.<\/p>\n “Ahmed Uddin de la Comisi\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos Isl\u00e1micos IHRC, un miembro fundador organizador de la Red Internacional Decolonial DIN e iniciador del D\u00eda del Memorial del Genocidio asistir\u00e1 al evento.”<\/p>\n La Comunidad de Pensamiento Decolonial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our brothers and sisters of The Decolonial Thought Community in Mexico have taken up the concept of Genocide Memorial Day that is promoted by DIN. On October 12, 1492 Columbus the Criminal opened the doors of hell for the Indigenous people of the America. On October 12 they organize an event to commemorate the Indigenous … Continue reading Indigenous Holocaust Memorial: Genocide Memorial Day[:es]Sobre el Memorial del Holocausto Ind\u00edgena el 12 de Octubre del 2019<\/span>