Assault on Home Tree

To everyone who's ever watched Avatar, they probably seen the destruction of home tree as horrific and sad. To anyone who's never seen Avatar, the scene "Assault on Home Tree" (well that's the scene name in the dvd scene selections thingy) starts out with helicopters bringing the mother ship to the Omaticaya's home. The reason why they're flying over there with the intentions of gassing everyone out and removing the tree: to have access to the 'unobtanium' that sells for a million dollars a kilo or something...home tree however is sitting on it and the whole reason for Jake being in Pandora is to get the Omaticaya to move out of the tree so they can mine up all that mineral in the ground and exploit it for profit gain.
The scene played out and Jake and Grace didn't get the Omaticaya people to move out of the tree, the tree is basically blown down and some blue peeps gets killed however the main characters stay alive.
To me, the whole scene was sad, very sad. Some people love this movie and some people don't. Some people I talked to have cried when home tree was taken down. The music, the camera angles and what they showed you, the effect this had on the blue people: their emotions, what they were doing, what they were saying, what their body language told us, the military people: and what they were doing, what they were saying, how they carried out their master plan...the film itself is constantly being told from Jake's point of view, we're reminded every other scene that this is his story...that should have been told by his brother instead of him. The music and the people is what makes this scene so tragic, it's sad! It makes you feel sorry for the Omaticaya people and see the military as a bad force (in a bigger sense the U.S.)...
It positions you to take the side of the Omaticaya people versus taking the military side and supporting them. You see the damage that it's done to the inferior population, by destroying their home they take power away from the people, take away their livelihood, their hope, their everything basically. Whilst the military feels justified in their actions that they feel nothing, there's a time when yes it seems like they realize they just did a bad thing, especially Trudy, the female helicopter pilot who refused to participate in taking down home tree. The signifiers is the tree, it acts as an object, a living object that all Omaticaya people connect with, so it's like their foundation to their lives and acts like their 'legs' to support them. The signifieds is all in this paragraph, I just didn't use the actual key word in explaining what it means. The effects of the tree coming down is horrific...
The message that I think the 'Assault on Home Tree' is that too often these things are happening in the world and have happened throughout world history that too often goes unnoticed. I believe that this movie isn't just about African tribes going through this present day but also about native americans and the history behind the founding of this country. This scene speaks to all people who have been inferior (not just in the U.S. but peoples around the world). I mean the tree can represent all the people who have fallen into inferiority that have been 'cut down' and are powerless now. The stories of inferior populations are not told enough for people to notice. But now that we see the 1st and 2nd person points of view we see what this does to people. However everyone doesn't ever recover from this, there aren't heroes like Jake who save the people from total destruction.
The fantasy part of this whole movie tells us that this can't possibly ever happen but in movies. Yes we get to take a break from reality but are we really? Or are we simply watching a story from history that hasn't ever been told before?