Definitely was not one way because both sides committed acts of violence right? Specifically, on one side you had people committing violence in order to retain

Definitely was not one way because both sides committed acts of violence right? Specifically, on one side you had people committing violence in order to retain their positions of power and advantage over a weaker group and on the other you had people doing it in order to improve their positions of weakness and disadvantage against a more powerful group. In some ways it's kind of like when a lion attacks a gazelle and the gazelle fights back... that kind of "not all one way".