Indians in Honduras said yesterday they will stage a symbolic trial and execution of Christopher Columbus, whose discovery of America opened the New World to Spanish conquest.
The trial of the Genoese explorer will begin July 20, when Honduras celebrates Lempira Day, honoring an indigenous leader who fought Spanish colonization, said Salvador Zuniga, coordinator of the Council of Popular Organisations [sic] and Indigenous People.
It will culminate in the execution of the explorer with bows and arrows on Columbus Day on Oct. 12.
The "gang of murderers and their minions who accompanied Columbus on their conquest" will be tried before an Indigenous People's Tribunal in a village of Lenca Indians, who are descended from the Maya, he said.
