disgusted at their (our) treatment by the over-classes since the statelet's inception, and suffered many, many injustices served upon them, silently

Another point of view is that those injustices could have been overcome much more quickly without killing a single father, mother or child.
That you could have been where you are now years ago but for the actions of that internationally reviled terrorist group with all its links to terror sponsoring Arab states like Gaddaffi's Libya, and other terrorist groups like the drug dealing Contras of Columbia.