In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs
and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.
This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have
them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons
of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every
means, including, of course, violence.