Summary
What some historians call genocide against the colonizers, arising, on Moses’s account, in conditions of asymmetric power and violence where millenarian resistance movements view the colonizers as a single hostile entity and make settler families as targetable as military and police personnel (More than Genocide, line 141).
Details
- Moses places it in his second lesson from colonial history: particularly vicious reprisals occur when indigenous resistance involves attacks on the colonizer’s families, evidenced by the campaigns against the “Indian Mutiny” of 1857–1859, the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and the Herero uprising of 1904 to 1907 (line 141).
- The historians who use the term are not named in the piece (line 141).