Christopher Columbus Villian or Hero?

Christopher Columbus: Villain On the second Monday in October the people of the United States of America celebrate Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus is taught to be a hero in America but was he really? Or was he a ruthless murderer who wiped out an entire nation. Christopher Columbus found a land that was not known to the "civilized" world yet. He completely wiped off of the land the natives who had previously inhabited it. His …

…the country. Bosnian Serb forces drove Muslims from their homes, subjecting them to mass rape, confinement in concentration camps and genocide. So how is this different from what Columbus did? Columbus exported the natives through ethnic-cleansing, murdered the natives, and subjected their women to mass rape. If Christopher Columbus was alive today he would be tried for crimes against humanity. The holiday for him should be abolished because Americans are just celebrating a war criminal.