A Punitive Expedition

In the book Tarzan of the Apes, first published in 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs describes a punitive expedition against the village of Mbonga's tribe. We already know that these people are the remnant of a much larger tribe that has been enslaved and butchered by the Belgians.
Nevertheless, they are diminished and deprived of their personhood by the black propaganda of the Imperialist officer class. These poor Africans, we learn, are cannibals and they have been torturing a French officer. Like Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, Vietnamese, and so on, the justification for their murder is now in place.

'It was a determined and angry company - a punitive expedition as well as one of relief..........  For half an hour the men with Lieutenant Charpentier crouched in the dense foliage of the jungle, waiting the signal. To them it seemed like hours. they could see natives in the fields, and others moving in and out of the village gate.
At length the signal came - a sharp rattle of musketry, and like one man, an answering volley tore from the jungle to the west and to the south. The natives in the field dropped their implements and broke madly for the palisade. The French bullets mowed them down, and the French sailors bounded over their prostrate bodies straight for the village gate...........
For a few moments the blacks held their ground within the entrance to the street, but the revolvers, rifles and cutlasses of the Frenchmen crumpled the native spearmen and struck down the black archers with their bows half drawn.
Soon the battle turned into a wild rout, and then to a grim massacre.........
They spared the children and those of the women whom they were not forced to kill in self defence, but when at length they stopped, panting, blood covered and sweating, it was because there lived to oppose them no single warrior of all the savage village of Mbonga
.....and finally the village was wrapped in the silence of slumber except for the wailing of the native women for their dead.'