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Identify good and bad based on what people do. Not why they are doing it. Otherwise you're simply agreeing that the ends justify the means.
Someone kills a noncombatant? Bad. Doesn't matter why.
By that logic every single fight has been between bad guys. Abolitionists vs. slavers? Sorry buddy, they both killed noncombatants, they're both just bad guys. Nazis doing genocide vs. partisabs? Sorry buddy, they're both just bad guys.
There are no perfect fights, perfect armies, perfect struggles for liberation. You will have to accept what it takes to fight oppression or force yourself to a mealy-mouthed sidelines from which you declare everyone that isn't passive is always a villain.
I can be glad that the Union won the U.S. Civil War and and ended slavery yet still consider it to be war crimes that they deliberately attacked civilians as part of Sherman's March; no logic had been violated there.
According to OP's logic that makes The Union bad guys, end of thought.