This sort of ridiculous propaganda was frequently pushed by Liberals back home to damn the imperial project
Conveniently left out every single time was that the image on the right was typically in response to that of the left, with natives having gone on some murder spree targeting women and children that was then harshly punished
As Lawrence James, describing this sort of situation in his The Savage Wars, notes:
“A professional soldier who came across the bodies of murdered settlers felt this wild spirit: 'I left the laager that day holding staunchly the opinions of Mr Labouchere and his supporters, condemnatory of the slaughter of the blackman; but a quarter of an hour among such sights as these sufficed to convert me into a zealous advocate for their prompt extermination.”
But the Liberals never cared. They just hated that the natives might have to face consequences. So they went berserk when reprisal raids were conducted after not having really cared about the atrocities that led to those raids
This was true throughout the imperial era, from Jamestown to Sarawak, China to Rhodesia
Barbarity vs Civilisation, by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1899