「双语」例行记者会/RegularPressConference（2021-12-10）(15)

Wang Wenbin: As is known to all, the US brutally killed American Indians, forcibly expelled and assimilated them and committed systemic violation of their human rights through legislation. It has conducted numerous crimes against humanity on American Indians, which constitute de facto genocide.
历史上，美国大规模屠杀印第安人，从肉体上实施种族灭绝。从建国到二战结束的100多年的时间里，美国对印第安人系统性种族清洗，导致印第安人口从15世纪末的500万骤减至20世纪初的25万。其中裴奎特、莫希干、马萨诸塞等10余个部落完全灭绝。美国前总统格兰特、内战时期的北方将领谢尔曼等均表示，“有必要灭绝全体印第安人部落”，“将印第安人赶尽杀绝”。美国还通过强制迁徙和保留地政策挤压印第安人生存空间。美国1830年通过《印第安人迁徙法》，以武力驱赶、欺诈胁迫等手段强制约10万印第安人迁徙至偏远狭小的保留地，造成大批印第安人途中死亡。上世纪末，美国通过欺骗、强迫方式，将核废料、工业垃圾等危害健康的废弃物埋入印第安人保留地，引发严重环境污染，造成大量印第安人死亡，连印第安人保留地都要“灭绝”。
In history, the US slaughtered many American Indians and committed physical genocide against them. Over the 100-plus years after the US was founded till the end of World War II, the US launched a systemic ethnic cleansing that resulted in nosedive of the American Indians’ population from 5 million at the end of the 15th century to 250,000 at the beginning of the 20th century,pushingover ten tribes, including the Pequot tribe, the Mahican tribe and the Massachusett tribe, towardsextinction. Former US President Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, a leader of the Union Armies in the American Civil War, spoke favorably of ridding the country of Indian tribes by any means necessary and exterminating the Indians. The US squeezed the living space of native Indians through forced migration and the reservation system, which amounted to genocide. The Indian Removal Act adopted in 1830 forced about 100,000 native Indians to migrate to remote and small reservations by expelling, cheating and coercion. Many of them died on the way of migration. At the end of the 20th century, the US coaxed or forced native Indians into allowing the burial of nuclear waste, industrial refuse and other garbage that endangers people’s health in Indian reservations. It has caused serious environmental pollution which led to the deaths of many Indians. The US was not even sparing Indian reservations.