 But their revenge was often taken on innocent villagers.Men, women, and children were ruthlessly slaughtered or became the victims of unrestrained lust and rapine.The result was to drive from their homes thousands of industrious and peaceful peasants, who, long after the main resistance had been completely crushed, continued to wage a vendetta war, and to generate feelings of hatred which the succeeding years of conciliation and good government have not wholly eradicated."