Clements accepts Reynolds ' argument but also exonerates the colonists themselves of the charge of genocide . He says that unlike genocidal determinations by Nazis against Jews in World War II , Hutus against Tutsis in Rwanda and Ottomans against Armenians in present-day Turkey , which were carried out for ideological reasons , Tasmanian settlers participated in violence largely out of revenge and self-preservation . He adds : " Even those who were motivated by sex or morbid thrillseeking lacked any ideological impetus to exterminate the natives . " He also argues that while genocides are inflicted on defeated , captive or otherwise vulnerable minorities , Tasmanian natives appeared as a " capable and terrifying enemy " to colonists and were killed in the context of a war in which both sides killed noncombatants
Ottomans against Armenians
Armenian Genocide
Black War