October 7

October 7 was a terrible day. A large group of armed men suddenly appeared from nowhere and started killing people. By the time the carnage was over, scores of people including women and little children lay dead. These innocent people did not even get a chance to ask why they were being beaten up and killed.
I told you the date but forgot to mention the year.  The year was 1849. The site of the massacre was New Mexico, USA.
But those were different times. Colonizers had a free hand to push politically unorganized, technologically backward indigenous people to a side and call them savages.  Any act of resistance from the lesser human beings was an act of terrorism and was met with full force.

October 7, 2023 was an equally grisly day.  Media reports suggest around fourteen hundred people were killed in a few hours; around two hundred were taken hostage. No civilized person can condone such acts of savagery. But people are not stopping at the condemnation of the October 7 attacks.  They are questioning the morality of pushing millions of indigenous people to Bantustans.  They are questioning the rectitude of demographic engineering of a land.  And they are questioning the legitimacy of controlling a large group of people without giving them any representation in the affairs of the government trying to control them.