You know, it’s funny. I read your post and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t spouting off anything false so I checked the wiki. I don’t have access to chronicles myself so I’ve never read it so if this is false I hope someone will please take the time to correct me! This is what I found though:
" Seeking to permanently end the aqir threat, the Zandalari knew that no corner of the continent could be left unguarded, and so the Zandalari convinced the most power-hungry of the troll factions to establish new and permanent strongholds across Kalimdor. At the forefront of these groups were the Gurubashi, Amani, and Drakkari tribes. After they had fully vanquished the aqir in their new regions, they could lay uncontested claim to the untouched fertile lands that they now lived in. The ambitious tribes listened to the Zandalari and readily agreed"
So, to reply to each of your own points.
1.The previous settlers did not leave. They were conquered, slaughtered, driven out.
- They very much did conquer the lands from the aqir, and more than that, they were convinced by the Zandalari to establish new settlements across Kalimdor to stop the Aqir from returning to their conquered lands. The Amani very much did colonize.
I’m not trying to bully you, man. The story of the Amani is 100% a tragic story. A story where I can completely understand someone looking at it and seeing them as victims of colonization by the blood elves. However, I think this unironically one of the deeper more ambiguous parts of WoW lore. It’s so much more grey than how black and white it looks on a surface level. At the end of the day the Amani aren’t that different from from the aqir who came before them, or the blood elves who came after. It’s another chapter in a long story of war and conquest, in which both sides have committed grievous acts against the other. It’s a story of victims of circumstance.