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Decolonization Is a Violent Event End Quote
Bennon insists that decolonization is a historic process which must be understood as the encounter between two congenitally antagonistic forces. The colonizers have to create an image of the colonized as these dehumanized more animalistic sort of another species really who can be rightfully oppressed exploited and who can have their land stolen from them. So colonization actually is a process that transforms the colonized in a specific way by transforming them into what Benon says is another species. This transformation can only be achieved through violent confrontation between colonizer and the colonized, but not insisting that it reeks of red hot cannonballs and bloody knives.