Killing your 'friends' - that's OK | Socialist Action 1983

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YOU MUST have seen those films about how Britain's "lost army' conducted strategic retreat — ie ran away Japanese army in Burma in 1942.

There they were, thin khaki line, all alone, except for Errol Flynn.

the sweallls a way jungle fighting those savage who didn't care a damn about Curallell alu values. ds had so do lads had because weren't they there to save the locals from a ruthless enemy!

Well, in that : heroic rout nobody played more valiant role than the officers who led the the front.

Take second Gerald Fitzpatrick who noticed one day that the Japanese were getting a bit close to a village near where the Brits were camping. Our Gerald not to take any villagers Lilt might.go and give the came away so ne orderec his men to shoot 26 of them.

He did the first one in by knifing him personally. You might think that a murderous thing to do Well, not really. How do you think the Brits could defend Int zonries from the Japanese if the Japanese got their hands our lads? So Fitzpatrick 4410 his men had only one choice: nassacre une iucals unlike the Germans who broke the military code by killing enemies, were OK, we bumped off our so-called allies.