Unveiling the Atrocities of the Taino Genocide Genocide is the mass killing of a certain religion. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The importance of understanding historical atrocities is to understand the importance of our history. (Encyclopedia Britannica) Biblical foundations and perspectives on genocide are mainly all based on biblical worldviews. First, the concepts of justice and righteousness in the Bible are basically about how everyone should be treated equally and not differently. (TGC U.S. edition) Secondly, human dignity and sanctity of life in biblical teaching ways is saying that everyone was created for a purpose. Lastly, God’s character and his response to injustice. His reaction and response to injustice is that we…show more content… There were a couple of perpetrators of the Taino, and there was one main victim. So, the government of Taino is non-existent. Therefore, they have a king/leader. The Taino also had no militia.Also they had the Spanish militia, they had them target their main victim, the carib tribe.With all that went down with the Tainos there were still some survivors. Like Robert Garcia was one he said that he found himself through his tough time dealing with the aftermath of this genocide.So, from all this time they trusted the Spanish militia even though they were the ones who were going to attack them and kill off their community. The consequences and aftermath of this genocide are atrocious. In the Taino genocide 7 million people lost their life.Without 4 decades slavery contributed to the death of these 7 million Taino people. There is a lot of trauma because one of the most known men was the leader of this genocide. (National Library of Medicine) So,the Taino people did go through trauma but that's because of the destruction of their community and their whole culture. The Spaniards came in and at first the Tainos never would have thought they would cause…show more content… ( Library of Congress)So, due to the destruction and trauma of this genocide, there were multiple long-term effects. This genocide caused the survivors to have to deal with long-term effects of their loved ones dying. They also had to deal with the destruction of their town.Therefore, the Tainos went through a lot of loss and trauma. With this community they loved each other so much and they would do for their faith and their communities faith. The Taino people wanted justice after this genocide because the Spaniards destroyed everything. (The People vs. Columbus)They got no justice for what happened because no real justice can be done.The Tainos descendants had to get therapy after this. There is no record of any other communities affected by this genocide, just the same people in different areas. Lastly,the Taino people were very religious in their ways. The Tainos were very thankful for everything they had. So, this is how Tainos took nothing for granted. The genocide of the Taino was a tragic time for their religion in Haiti. There were many effects and after effects of the Taino
