Human beings are hurt by other human beings.
You can't hang that on politics. People kill and injure each other because they choose to. If they live under a government that directs them to do so, they allow the government that directs them to exist, because it's safer and more convenient not to oppose it.
You speak as if governments are independent organisms. They're not. I've seen the same behavior among antitechnology people who behave, and speak, as if technology runs by itself, with no people responsible for the safety and wellbeing of their neighbors.
Governments don't kill people. People kill people. That's why "I was just following orders" is not a defense.