The Wushe Incident was a specific historical episode. But as the Aboriginal poet Walis Nokan has written, "As far as the Aborigines are concerned, during the ROC period the government has forced whole villages to relocate in the same way as the Japanese did during their occupation.
霧社事件是歷史上的特殊事件，然而，「對於原住民來說，國家力量強制遷村的型態，歷經了日據時期和國府時期並未改變，也讓原住民面對遷村時，心情格外複雜，」原住民詩人瓦歷斯．諾幹說。