De-Catholization

De-Catholization
Part of the Creeperian Civil War and the Red Terror
Miguelist soldiers killing six 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, Homosexuals, 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, Special Task Squadrons, Elite Medical Detachment, Apostates for the Cause
Motive	Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Salvadoran Sentiment, Anti-Deltinian Sentiment, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Monarchism
Verdict	=
Charges	Violating the Constitution of Creeperopolis, Participating in De-Catholization, Participating in the Red Terror, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, Apostasy, Murder of Romero I
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. Prisoners were medically experimented on by the Elite Medical Detachment.

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.

Distinctive Features

Genocidal State

Map of the six National Council extermination camps in San Luís and Adolfosburg.

The logistics of the mass murder turned Creeperopolis into what Orlando Pareja Palau, a professor from Antonio José Sáenz Heredia University, called a "genocidal state." The De-Catholization was the second time a nation had thrown its power behind the idea that an entire people should be wiped out only after what Pareja Palau argues is the Jewish Holocaust in Greater Sacramento. Anyone who was a Creeperian Catholic, a Salvadoran, or a Romerist has to be killed to protect the state and purify the country. People who were identified as such had their property confiscated and were deported on trains to forced labor camps, concentration camps, or extermination camps. As prisoners entered the death camps, they were ordered to surrender all their personal property. The National Council for Peace and Order used to confiscated property to help finance their war effort.

Collaboration

Orlando Pareja Palau argued that without collaborators, the National Council for Peace and Order could not have extended the killing across the entire country. The National Council had to have received aid from local peasants in their efforts to kill Creeperian Catholics. Groups like the Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales, commonly known as the ESTARES, were formed to recruit locals to join in on the genocide to hasten the process. Other rebel groups such as the Senvarian Liberation Front sympathized with the National Council feeling oppressed by the Creeperian Catholics since the Senvar-Senvekian native population of Senvar-Senvek was overwhelmingly Protestant. Other organizations such as the Creeperian Social Communist Party's Atheist Red Army under Cayetano Handel Carpio and Mariano Alcocer Fraga also collaborated with the National Council and perhaps even pushed the National Council into initiating an industrialized genocide of Creeperian Catholics.

The industrialization and scale of the murder was unprecedented, even for the Creeperian standards. Killings were systematically conducted in virtually all areas of Creeperopolis. Nearly 7 million Creeperian Catholics from across Creeperopolis, El Salvador, and the State of the Church were killed from 1933 to 1949. Hundreds of thousands more Creeperian Catholics died in Atlántida and Castilliano whenever the National Council for Peace and Order and its collaborators entered their territory.

Groups of Catholic collaborators were organized into the Apóstatas por la'Causa, translated as "Apostates for the Cause" (APOCA).

Medical Experiments

Medical experiments were conducted on concentration and extermination camp inmates by the National Council for Peace and Order under the direct control of the Destacamento Médico de Élite, translated as the Elite Medical Detachment and abbreviated as DEMÉDÉL. At least 28,000 prisoners were subjected to experiments, with most dying as a result either during the experiments or later. Nineteen senior physicians and other medical personnel were charged at the Adolfosburg Trials after the civil war with crimes against humanity. They included the head of the Destacamento Médico de Élite, tenured professors, clinic directors, and biomedical researchers. Experiments took place primarily at the six extermination camps of Teguracoa, Joyagua, Jucuaguel, Mafrerio, Quetgoza, and Sechakan, but also occured at other camps. Some dealt with sterilization of men and women, the treatment of war wounds, ways to counteract chemical weapons, research into new vaccines and drugs, and the survival of harsh conditions.

The most notorious physician of the Creeperian Civil War and of the De-Catholization was Ricardo Klement Encarnación, a DEMÉDÉL officer who became the Teguracoa camp doctor on May 30, 1936. Interested in genetics, he would pick out subjects from the new arrivals during "selection" on the ramp. Whose who he selected for his experiments would be measured, killed, and dissected. Klement Encarnación was lynched and mutilated during the Massacre of the Seven Thousand April 5, 1957.

Catholics in Creeperopolis

Main article: Creeperian Catholic Church

Creeperopolis was and still is the world's largest Creeperian Catholic nation. In 1933, Creeperopolis had around 295 million Creeperian Catholics. The Creeperian Catholic Church continued to have a large influence over Creeperian culture and Creeperian society.

Origins

Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Monarchsim

Anti-Clerical and Anti-Catholic maganize cover published in 1933 in response to the start of the Creeperian Civil War. The magazine claimed that the Pope and Catholic clergy controlled the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council.

From the beginning of the First Parliamentary Era in 1565, the Creeperian Catholic Church bagan to come under attack from Creeperian intellectual figures, mostly stemming from the Liberal Party. Liberals called for the restriction of Church influence on politics, culture, society, and public life. The Liberals achieved their ultimate goals of secularization of abolishing the near 500-year long monarchy under the House of Martínez, the establishment of the Republic of Creeperopolis, and the abolishing the State of the Church and exile of the Pope under the leadership of Liberal Prime Minister and President Orlando Moreno Hidalgo. The abolition of the monarchy and esistence of the Republic was short-lived hoever as the Peoples' Revolution in September 1730 reestablished the monarchy and ended the Republic. Liberals continued to champion the destruction of the State of the Church until July 4, 1771, when King Manuel III deposed the Parliament in the Revolution of Restoration and had all Liberals in Parliament hanged, including Prime Minister Fernando Moreno Juderías, a descendant of Orlando Moreno Hidalgo.

Despite the efforts of Manuel III and Adolfo III to erradicate all support for republicanism, secularism, Anti-Monarchism, and Anti-Catholicism, these ideas became commonplace throughout Creeperopolis, especially in the final years of Adolfo III's reign as Emperor. The National Liberal Party (the Partido Nacional Liberal or PLN) of the Second Parliamentary Era named itself as the successor of the Liberal Party from the First Parliamentary Era and originated as an offshoot of the lingering republican and secular sentiments and it adopted light Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Monarchsim as two of its ideologies.

Other left-wing parties such as the Creeperian Socialist Party took a stronger stance on Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Monarchsim declaring that the complete abolition of the monarchy is the only way forward for Creeperopolis. Far-left parties such as the Creeperian Social Communist Party also called for the complete abolition of the monarchy but also the complete disestablishment of the Creeperian Catholic Church. The Creeperian Social Communist Party's Atheist Red Army engaged in the streets with the Falange Creeperiano and the Camisas Negras claiming that the paramilitary wings of the Catholic Royalist Party and the Creeperian Pro-Fatherland Front sought to destroy secularism and impose a Catholic theocracy. During the Reigns of Terrors, the Atheist Red Army killed Creeperian Catholics as they were all seen as collaborators with the enemy.

The local Protestant populations of Senvar and Senvek also despised the Creeperian Catholic Church and the Monarchy as both institutions were seen as imperialists who conquered the Kingdom of Senvar-Senvek out of greed and national pride with no consideration for the local population.

Civil War

Segregation

Creeperian Catholics were segregated into "Catholic Zones" in Miguelist controlled major cities.

The Creeperian Civil War began San Salvador del Norte, San Salvador del Norte, when soldiers loyal to Romero I and soldiers loyal to Miguel VII opened fire on each other at 7:25pm. The soldiers loyal to Miguel VII overran the soldiers loyal to Romero I and forced them to retreat the barrack. The soldiers loyal to Romero I took up positions one block from the barrack taking the city capitol turning it into their fortification. It remains a mystery who was the first to fire their rifle in the barrack.

At the onset of the civil war, senior Miguelist officials ordered the immediate segregation of Creeperian Catholics in Miguelist territory to prevent any large scale uprising against the Miguelist government. All major cities under Miguelist control were segregated into a Catholic and non-Catholic zone. The non-Catholic zone, called the "Zona Libre" ("Free Zone"), was accessable to the outside and housed secular Creeperans and people of other religions which were not loyal to the Pope. The Catholic zone, called the "Zona Católico" ("Catholic Zone"), was closed off from the outside. People could not travel in or out of the zone without permission from city officials. Zones were divided by barbed wire fences and guard towers ensured no one tried to escape out or smuggle food or water in. All major cities were fit with Catholic zones, with notable examples being Adolfosburg, San Luís, Denshire, San Miguel, La'Victoria, Port Senvar, and Port Senvek. Whenever cities with large Catholic zones were nearing liberation, all Catholics in zones were deported to another city with another zone and the zone was destroyed to leave no evidence of their existence.

Groups of Catholic collaborators in the Catholic zones were organized into the Apóstatas por la'Causa, translated as "Apostates for the Cause" (APOCA). Members of the APOCA were tasked with spying on their fellow members of the Catholic zones to weed out escape attemps, popular revolts, or smuggling operations. APOCA collaborators met mixed results with nearly half of the collaborators being caught and lynched for their apostasy from the faith and for collaborating with the enemy. Those who survived got to live out their lives in the Free Zone of the city they lived in after 3 years of service in the zones. Former members of the APOCA were hunted down by the Creeperian government following the end of the Creeperian Civil War with those who were caught being publicly executed in the cities they served or being given to the angry crowds to beat to death. An estimated 3,000 people joined the APOCA with the vast majority of survivors being brutaly murdered or executed following the civil war with few fleeing to countries like Terranihil.

Establishment of the ESTARES

Main article: Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales

Execution of Catholic Zone smugglers in Adolfosburg in 1934.

On April 15, 1933, the Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales, translated as the "Special Task Squadrons" (ESTARES), was initially formed to monitor security on the Catholic Zones of major cities with such zones. The general command was held by Chief Field Marshal Juan Salinas Figueroa. When the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council under orders of Chief Field Marshal Adolfo Cabañeras Morneo established the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, translated as the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), a week later on April 26, 1933, the operations of the ESTERES expanded to secret police missions. With the support of the Apóstatas por la'Causa, the ESTARES conducted raids of suspected rebel leaders' homes in the Catholic Zones.

With the news of atrocities being committed by the DINA under Adolfo Cabañeras Morneo in El Salvador during the Salvadoran War, most notably the El Mozote Massacre on January 13, 1934, The Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales began to shape itself into a group of secret police death squads.

Mass Shootings and Burnings

Execution of Creeperian Catholics by the ESTARES in 1943.

The ESTARES would begin committing mass shootings of political opponents in 1934 and against Creeperian Catholics living in the countryside of Miguelist territory. Mass executions were common if someone was found to be publicly worshiping. Initially, priests were the primary targets of the ESTARES. Creeperian Catholics were ordered to renounce their faith at gunpoint or be executed for treason against the state. An estimated 200 people were killed each day by the ESTARES through mass executions and mass shootings.

The Miguelist Army itself began being tasked with executing any priests or Catholics worshipping publicly. Churches were ordered to be burned to the ground, all statues were to be destroyed, and all art was to be confiscated to either be sold or destroyed. Churches across Miguelist territory were destroyed from 1934-1937 by which very few chuches remained. Cathedrals and Basilicas were ordered to have all art and statues removed and be repurposed to become barracks, factories, or prisons. The Adolfosburg Cathedral was converted into an ammunition factory being labored by Catholic prisoners. The La'Victoria Cathedral in La'Victoria, San Luís was immediately burned down due to its high association with te Creeperian Crusader victory at the Siege of Almadinat Almuqadasa in 1326. Around 2,300 Catholics were forced inside to die in the flames of the cathedral.

Concentration and Labor Camps

After the fall of Ciudad de Granada in 1935 and the forced deportation of Catholics to Port Senvar, the Miguelists decided to relocate several Catholics living in Catholic Zones in major cities to specialized prison camps to better ensure they are not being smuggled in food or water and to ensure they have a more difficult time escaping. Several prisoner of war camps were transformed into concentration and forced labor camps where Catholics were either worked to death or held in poor living conditions.

On September 1, 1934, the National Council for Peace and Order established the Ministry for Public Safety which was to construct, operate, administer, and monitor the effectiveness of the concentration and labor camps being established. Field Marshal Pascual Ignacio Espinar Casaus was appointed to be Minister for Public Safety and he oversaw the construction, operation, administration, and monitored the camps' effectiveness. Under his direct orders, prisoners had to work from one hour before sunrise until midnight and would only be given two 30 minute breaks to eat poor quality bread and drink dirty water. Sleeping quarters were cramped with bunk beds being barely large enough to hold one person who was 6 feet tall.

Each prisoner was given two ration cards per day to use to eat. People caught using more than to per day were separated from their fellow prisoners and locked in solitary confinement for one week and only given one meal per day. Second time offenders were locked in solitary confinement for two weeks with one mean per two days. Third time offenders were beaten and hanged in front of their former prison barrack where their body would remain indefinitely.

In the case of escape attempts, half of the barrack population where the would be escapees were from were removed from the barracks at night, were forced to dig their own mass grave, were doused in gasoline, and were set on fire by the gaurds. In the case of a successful escape attempt, the entire barrack was burned to the group in the middle of the night while the prisoners were sleeping inside.

Move to Extermination Camps

Miguel VII and several of his military advisors, most notably Juan Salinas Figueroa, Pascual Espinar Casaus, and Miguel Salinas Ortega, agreed that violence against the groups the National Council for Peace and Order saw as standing in the way of Creeperopolis' prosperity must be eliminated. These groups included people aligned with the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council, known as Romerists, Conservatives, lay Creeperian Catholics, clergy of the Creeperian Catholic Church, ethnic Salvadorans, Creeperian Fascists, particularly members of the Creeperian Pro-Fatherland Front and the Catholic Royalist Parties and their paramilitary organizations known as the Camisas Negras and the Falange Creeperiano, Creeperian Monarchists, Homosexuals, and potentionally Deltinian Nationalists.

Nothing which belongs to the right will survive the terror of the Reds.

— Miguel VII

Killing Methods

The Miguelists killed people during the De-Catholization through various methods. Groups such as the Miguelist Army, Athiest Red Army, or the Escuadrones de Tareas Especiales typically hanged their victims or executed them via firing squad. Meanwhile, concentration and extermination camps were outfitted with gas vans and gas chambers to quicken the extermination of Catholics.

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  Cristeros were publicly hanged by the Miguelists early in the civil war.
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  The exectuion of Agustín Pro Juárez by firing squad.
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  A ruined gas van found at the Quetgoza Extermination Camp.
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  The only surviving Miguelist gas chamber at the Teguracoa Extermination Camp.

Affected Groups

Homosexuals

Main article: LGBT Rights in Creeperopolis

Professor Orlando Pareja Palau is a fierce opponent to the inclusion of Deltinians and Homosexuals to the death toll of the De-Catholization.

Around 100,000 gay men were arrested by the National Council for Peace and Order from 1933 to 1949. It is not known how many died but most historians agree around 80 to 90 percent died. Tens of thousands were castrated, sometimes "voluntarily" to avoid criminal sentences. Homes belonging to homosexuals were burned and their property was destroyed to "cleanse" the planet.

The Creeperian government officially includes the figure of 90,000 deaths to the total number of deaths during the De-Catholization. However, some scholars and historians disagree. The most notable opponent of including homosexuals in the death toll of the De-Catholization is Orlando Pareja Palau, a professor from Antonio José Sáenz Heredia University. He argues that homosexuals are subhumans and should not be included in something called the "De-Catholization." He also argues that homosexuals are not worthy enough to be included in any tragic fatality statistic.

Deltinians

Main article: 1937 Deltinian Rebellion

On May 5, 1937, Deltinian Muslim peasants in the departments of Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz revolted against the rule of the National Council for Peace and Order. The Deltinian peasants were lead by Muammar al-Koroma. The peasants demanded total independence from the Imperial and National Councils for Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz, and called for support and aid from Greater Sacramento. The government declined to send direct aid but offered the Deltinians asylum in accordance with the 1853 Sacramatian Asylum Act. Before the Deltinians could accept the offer, National Council soldiers under General Pascual Espinar Casaus massacred 3,139 to 328,000 Deltinians, effectively suppressing the revolt on May 17, 1937.

Following the Miguelist massacre of Deltinians, Field Marshal Máximo Barrueco Morterero launched an offensive into the departments of Abdan, Helam, and Jakiz in order to "liberate" the Deltinians from atheist hands in August 1937. From August 1937 until January 1938, the Imperial Council made minimal gains. The offensive was forced to be cancelled in February 1938 due to a lack of supplies to continue the offensive. The Imperial Council fortified the frontline which had been established.

The Creeperian government officially includes the figure of 328,000 deaths to the total number of deaths during the De-Catholization. However, some scholars and historians disagree. The most notable opponent of including the Deltinians in the death toll of the De-Catholization is Orlando Pareja Palau, a professor from Antonio José Sáenz Heredia University. He argues that the Deltinians are not Catholics and should not be included in something called the "De-Catholization." He also argues that the Deltinians are of a lesser race and a lesser religion and are not worthy enough to be included in any tragic fatality statistic.

Catholic Resistance

Main article: Creeperian People's Catholic Front

Main article: Militarist Nationalist Front

Main article: Falange Creeperiano

Main article: Camisas Negras

Cristeros holding an early war Cristero banner.

Around April 1933, with the Miguelist Armed Forces and the National Council gaining considerable ground, a group of Catholic civilian farmers formed. The armed civilian militia, called the Creeperian Peoples' Catholic Front, declared allegiance with the Romerist Restoration Council. The group upheld the ideologies of Romerism and demanded that National Catholicism be instituted across Creeperopolis. The FCPC was lead by Enrique Figueroa Guerrero until his capture and execution in 1943 by the Athiest Red Army afterwhich he was succeeded by Alexander Sánchez Molina who survived the war.

The Restoration Council immediately accepted the aid of the group, who nicknamed themselves "Cristeros." In response, the National Council declared a no-quarter on all captured Cristeros, opting to hang captured Cristeros from telephone polls across Creeperopolis.

The Cristeros claimed to be composed of 3,000 farmers fighting for Jesus Crhist at the onset of the war. By the end of the war, the Cristeros were composed of nearly 15,000 Creeperian civilians fighting against the National Council. The majority of resistance operations conducted within Miguelist territory was conducted by the Cristeros.

Another resistance militia which formed was the death squad known as the Militarist Nationalist Front but is also called the Sombra Negra ans is commmonly abbreviated as FREMANI or SN. Adolfo Rivera López was a poor Creeperian farmer living in the countryside of Santa Ana. In 1940, the Senvarian Liberation Front raided his farm and killed his mother and father as a part of the De-Catholizaiton while he and his younger brother, Enrique Rivera López, were buying supplies for the farm in the city of Santa Ana. He was filled with anger at hearing the news and he wished to see the deaths of all Senvar-Senvekians in revenge for his parents' deaths. He and his brother established the Militarist Nationalist Front, and the sole goal of the group was to kill as many Senvar-Senvekians as possible. Rivera López also targeted communists and Deltinians.

Despite the Creeperian Peoples' Catholic Front being formed in similar conditions, the Cristeros were formed to fight communism, establish National Catholicism, and protect Creeperian farmers. The Militarist Nationalist Front, on the other hand, was established for the sole purpose of genocide and ethnocide but it did oppose the De-Catholization.

The Militarist Nationalist Front quickly gained members amassing around 1,000 members by 1941. The group began to capture and kill Senvar-Senvekian civilians in Santa Ana and Senvar. These killings brought the death squad to the immediate attention to the Senvarian Liberation Front who saw the Militarist Nationalist Front as a direct threat to Senvar-Senvekian sovereignty.

The Militarist Nationalist Front, abbreviated as FRENAMI, became known as the "Sombra Negra" ("Black Shadow") in the mid-1940s due to their black banner and their guerrilla tactics of hiding in the jungle in all black uniforms, waiting to attack unsuspecting victims.

On June 13, 1944, soldiers of the Militarist Nationalist Front stormed the city of Denshire. Immediately, stores, homes, and public spaces were raided, looted, and burned by the soldiers. People were rounded up and inspected to determine their ethnicity and religion. If an individual was found to be a Creeperian or a Catholic, the individual was released back into wherever they were captured. However, if an individual was found to be a Deltinian or a Muslim, they were placed into a truck and driven outside the city to be killed by a firing squad. Escapees were shot immediately and towards the end of the day, Deltinians and Muslims were killed immediately upon being identified to increase the death toll.

Initially, the soldiers forced the rounded up Deltinians to dig their own graves to be executed in, but as the morning went on and more and more captives were rounded up, the Deltinians were simply killed and their bodies were left on the ground. Executions initially took place in a wooded area outside the city. By noon, the executions were proformed on roadsides or just outside the city. By the mid-afternoon, the killings took place in the city itself, horrifying civilian witnesses to the massacre.

Some civilians attempted to shelter and protect Deltinians rightfully fearing for their lives. Deltinians were taken into homes and hidden behind bookshelves, under beds, in attics, in basements, and on rooftops. Many civilians attempted to assist the Deltinians. At first, civilians who hid and sheltered Deltinians were released free, but as the massacre progessed and more and more Deltinians were found hiding in homes, a no-quarter was initaited where all people caught hiding Deltinians were to be burned alive in their homes.

CORNACA CEO Francisco Sánchez Vizcarra was executed during the Denshire Massacre for sheltering 132 Deltinians in his mansion.

The most infamous case of a Creeperian civilian sheltering and protecting Deltinan civilians is of Francisco Sánchez Vizcarra. Sánchez Vizcarra was a wealthy businessman and the then CEO of the National Coffee and Sugar Corporation. Sánchez Vizcarra had a second mansion in Denshire which he purchased before the outbreak of the Creeperian Civil War. When civil war errupted, he was forced to essentially abandon his mansion in Denshire as it fell under the control of the National Council for Peace and Order. When Denshire was liberated in 1943 by the Imperial Council, he returned to rebuild the mansion and cater to the civilians of the city with his vast amounts of wealth. Sánchez Vizcarra was loved by the people of Denshire, and when the massacre began, many Deltinians flocked to his mansion in hopes of surviving. He hid a total of 132 Deltinians in his mansion during the massacre. However, he was caught by the soldiers of Sombra Negra and condemend to die in the fire of his mansion along with the 132 Deltinians hiding inside. He attempted to bribe the soldiers $245 million dollars to spare him and the 132 Deltinians. The soldiers refused the bribe. Instead, he bribed the soldiers the same amount to take him and the prisoners outside of Denshire and to the nearby village of Juayúa to be executed there and be properly buried instead of being burned alive or have thier bodies left in the steets. The soldiers agreed and Francisco Sánchez Vizcarra and the 132 Deltinians were executed and buried in the village of Juayúa. His mansion was subsequently looted by the Sombra Negra.

Throughout the massacre, thousands of women were raped by soldiers and left to die. Men who resisted were hanged by Sombra Negra soldiers on lampposts in the city. Children younger than the age of seven were forcibly conscripted and forced to kill their fellow Deltinians during the massacre. If the children refused, they were killed. If the children complied, they were abducted by the Sombra Negra following the massacre and forced to be child soldiers.

At sunset, mosques were lit ablaze, soldiers conducted their final killings, and the Sombra Negra withdrew from the city with an estimated 200 abducted children into the Creeperian countryside, killing more Deltinians during the withdrawl and march out of the city. By the time the massacre was over, 25,000 lay dead in the streets. The slaughter of 25,000 in the city of Denshire became to be known as the infamous Denshire Massacre and the Denshire Genocide.

The Denshire Massacre had nothing to do with the war against De-Catholization but the Creeperian government officially designates the massacre as a battle against Deltinian insurgents seeking to further the atrocities of the De-Catholization.

The paramilitary wings of the Catholic Royalist Party, known as the Falange Creeperiano, and the Creeperian Pro-Fatherland Front, known as the Camisas Negras, also resisted the De-Catholization through means of terrorism.

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
Homosexuals	80,000-90,000
Resistance	Unknown
Deserters	Unknown

See Also

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