This is quite an open-ended question as it is difficult to define "kind" or "harsh" in such a way that would make analytical sense.

For example, during the German occupation of Namibia, Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha led an active campaign to exterminate the indigenous Herero people between 1904 and 1908, resulting in upwards of 100,000 deaths.

Is this kinder or harsher than the 1 million deaths during the Indian Famine of 1899-1900 that resulted from the failure of the summer monsoon of 1899 and the laissez-faire economic policies of the British colonial administrators?