De-Catholization

De-Catholization
Part of the Creeperian Civil War and the Red Terror
Miguelist soldiers killing five Creeperian Catholics.
Location	Primarily Creeperopolis, but also in Atlántida, Castilliano, El Salvador, and the State of the Church under Miguelist control
Date	January 2, 1933-September 30, 1949 (16 years, 8 months and 4 weeks)
Target	Primarily Creeperian Catholics and the Catholic Church, but also Romerists, Salvadorans, and Deltinian Nationalists
Attack type	Genocide, Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, Cultural Cleansing, Mass Murder, Mass Rape, Looting, Pillaging, Forced Labor
Deaths	9-11 million
Perpetrators	National Council for Peace and Order, State of Granada, Senvarian Liberation Front, Atheist Red Army
Motive	Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Salvadoran Sentiment, Anti-Deltinian Sentiment, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Monarchism
Trials	San Salvador Trials, La'Libertad Trials, Adolfosburg Trials, Salvador Trials, White Terror (extrajudicial), Black Terror (extrajudicial)

De-Catholization (Creeperian Spanish: De-Católización), commonly known as the Creeperian Genocide (Creeperian Spanish: Genocido Creeperiano), was the genocide of Creeperian Catholics, Romerists, and Salvadorans. Between 1933 and 1949 across Miguelist controlled territories of Creeperopolis, the Miguelists systematically murdered around 9 to 11 million Catholics, Romerists, Salvadorans, and other political opponents, along with any Miguelist dissidents or deserters. The murders were carried out in mass executions, mass shootings, and by a policy of extermination through forced labor in quarries, farmland, and mines, or in gas chambers and gas vans in Miguelist extermination camps, chiefly Teguracoa, but also Joyagua, Jucuaguel, Mafrerio, Quetgoza, and Sechakan. Massacres, looting, and pillaging were also commonly committed by the Miguelists such as the 1944 La'Libertad Massacre, the 1947 San Salvador Massacre, and the 1948 Burning of San Salvador.

The National Council for Peace and Order implemented the persecution in stages. Following the outbreak of the Creeperian Civil War on January 2, 1933, the Miguelists built a network of prisoner of war camps for prisoners of war and arrested political opponents starting with Quetgoza in January 1933. Its prisoners were treated porrly and were poorly fed and hydrated, many of whom died from starvation or dehydration. In occupied civilian life, Catholics were segregated and treated as subhumans. Following defeat in the Salvadoran War, Salvadorans began to be targetted by groups of the Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales, Miguelist paramilitary death squads tasked with killing those deemed as enemies of the state.

The segregation of Catholics culminated in the policy of extermination discussed by senior Miguelist officials at the Adolfosburg Conference in Adolfosburg in August 1935. As Miguelist forces captured new territories, all anti-Catholic measures were radicalized. Under the coordination of the ESTARES with directions from the highest leadership of the National Council for Peace and Order, killings were committed within Miguelist occupied zones of Creeperopolis. The Miguelist Army and the Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales, in cooperation with the Athiest Red Army, the Senvarian Liberation Front, and local collaborators, murdered around 2.1 million Catholics in mass shootings and massacres between 1935 and 1949. By 1939, victims were being deported from across Creeperopolis in sealed freight trains to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, they were worked to death, executed, or gassed. The killing continued until the end of the Creeperian Civil War on September 30, 1949.

Creeperian Catholics were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event during the De-Catholization Era, usually defined as beginning in January 1933, in which the Miguelists and its collaborators persecuted and murdered other groups, including Salvadorans, political dissidents such as Romerists, and Deltinians. The death toll of these groups is thought to rise to 9-11 million dead. Denial of the genocide, questioning the genocide, or supporting the genocide is illegal in Creeperopolis and is punishable by death.

Terminology and Scope

Terminology

The term "De-Catholization" was originally used by Creeperian conservatives to label the period of time from August 13, 1729, to September 15, 1730, known as the Republic of Creeperopolis. Conservatives saw it as Creeperian liberals under Orlando Moreno Hidalgo abolishing the centuries of tradition of the Creeperian Catholic Church in the nation with the intent of turning Creeperopolis into a secular dominated nation with the majority of the population being agnostic, athiest, or irreligious. The abolition of the First State of the Church is pointed to as the greatest evidence that this is the case. Certain liberals from the Second Parliamentary Era embraced the idea of De-Catholization during the Creeperian Republic while the majority denied the claims of the conservatives as falsehoods.

During the Creeperian Civil War, Romerists from the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council and its supporters called the attacks on civilians through mass shootings and massacres as "Las'Grades Matanzas," translated as "The Great Massacres" or "The Grand Massacres," or as "Los'Trabajos del Diablo," translated as "The Works of the Devil." Others called the massacres "El Genocido", translated as "The Genocide." Meanwhile, the Miguelists officially called the mass shootings and massacres as "La'De-Catolización de la'Patria de la'República Popular de Creeperopólis", translated as the "The De-Catholization of the Motherland of the People's Republic of Creeperopolis." The Miguelists officially stated that the program was to transform Creeperopolis into a secular state through peaceful and progressive means as a way to mislead the public as to the actual methods De-Catholization would be achieved.

After the civil war, the Creeperian government officially named the genocide as "La'Gran Matanza," translated as The Great Massacre or The Grand Massacre." In 1956 following the Salvadoran Revolution of 1956, the Creeperian government officially designated the genocide as "De-Católización," translated as "De-Catholization," as to make the genocide more "relatable" to all those subject to the Creeperian government. Sometimes it is written or spoken as "La'De-Católización," translated as "The De-Catholization," as to signify it was a significant event. The genocide is commonly referred to as the "Genocido Creeperiano," translated as the "Creeperian Genocide," to refer to the genocide in a way as to not reference the Catholics which were the primary targets of the genocide.

Definition

De-Catholization at its most basic level is the genocide of Creeperian Catholics by the National Council for Peace and Order. Broder definitions used by the Creeperian government include Salvadorans and Romerists. Some historians also include Deltinians into the definition of De-Catholization.

Catholics in Creeperopolis

Main article: Creeperian Catholic Church

Civil War

Establishment of the ESTARES

Main article: Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales

Affected Groups

Creeperian Catholics

Catholic Resistance

Main article: Creeperian People's Catholic Front

Death Toll

Group	Estimated Killed
Creeperian Catholics	6.9 million
Politican Opponents	1.2–2.8 million
Salvadorans	980,000
Deltinians	3,139–328,000
Resistance	Unknown
Deserters	Unknown

See Also

• Creeperian Civil War
• List of Massacres in Creeperopolis
• Chemical Weapons in the Creeperian Civil War
• San Salvador Trials