>The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (primarily Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, 1782 at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, during the American Revolutionary War.
>Due to their commitment to Christian pacifism, the Moravian Christians did not take sides during the American Revolutionary War, which caused them to be viewed with suspicion by both the British and the Americans.
>As the Indians were collecting crops, Pennsylvania militia encountered them and falsely promised the believers that they would be "relocated away from the warring parties."
>Once they were gathered together, however, the American militia rounded the unarmed Moravians up and said that they planned to execute them for being spies (Nick Lowles, Hope not Hate, Gerry Gable, Searchlight Magazine), charges that the Moravians rebutted.
>The Indians asked their captors to be allowed to pray and worship on the night before their execution; they spent the night before their death praying as well as singing Christian hymns and psalms
>Before murdering them, the American soldiers "militia dragged the women and girls out into the snow and systematically raped them."
>As they were being killed, the Moravian Christians sang "hymns and spoke words of encouragement and consolation one to another until they were all slain".
>Believing in nonresistance, they pleaded for their lives to be spared, but did not fight back against their persecutors.
americans make me sick....