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DescriptionStatue of Antonio de Montesinos, Santo Domingo D.R.jpg
English: This huge statue is the most important work of art representing Antonio de Montesinos. Montesinos is widely recognized by scholars as the first Human Rights leader in the Americas ("Protector of the American Indigenous People") and for sparking a crisis that created the first set of international laws concerning universal humanity. The statue portrays him as if shouting the words that made him famous: "Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude?" This statement was part of two homilies he gave in the colony of Santo Domingo on December 21, and 28, 1511, to a congregation full of encomenderos and conquistadors who were responsible for the massacre of millions of indigenous people of the Caribbean. Bartolomé de las Casas, another well-known Human Rights activist, was present there, and it was this sermon that prodded him to a career as a defender of the American Indigenous People. The statue is about 50 foot tall (15 meters) and the dark skies may represent the dark times and the abuses he was denouncing. Celebrated Mexican sculptor Antonio Castellanos Basich designed it. The Mexican government donated it to the Dominican People in 1982, and it stands today near to the site wherein 1511 the fearless Montesinos called out evil by its name two earth-shattering speeches. Montesinos later moved to other regions of the Americas (even to Virginia) on his Human Rights crusade. This statue is also Castellanos most recognized work.
Español: Estatua de Antonio de Montesinos, en Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana. El fraile Dominicano ayudó a empujar la carrera de Bartolomé de las Casas en favor de los indios americanos
Nederlands: Dit enorme standbeeld is het belangrijkste kunstwerk dat Antonio Montesino uitgebeeld. De acties van pater Montesinos, monnik van de Orde der Predikheren, hielpen bij de druk van Bartolomé de las Casas tegen het geweld van de Spanjaarden tegen de Amerikaanse inheemse bevolking. Hij wordt door geleerden algemeen erkend als de eerste Mensenrechtenleider ("Beschermer van de Amerikaanse inheemse volkeren") en voor het ontstaan van een crisis die de eerste set van de internationale wetgeving inzake de universele mensheid creëerde. Bartolomé de las Casas wordt in Spanje vooral in conservatieve kringen ook tegenwoordig nog altijd op uiterst kritische en argwanende wijze bekeken. Hij is te beschouwen als de ultieme klokkenluider-avant la lettre, wiens kritiek ook bijna 450 jaar na zijn dood nog steeds aan het slechte collectieve geweten van zijn vaderland knaagt.
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18° 28′ 04.84″ N, 69° 53′ 05.87″ W
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