"If only the paddies could just conveniently forget and forgive the state-sanctioned murder of members of their community then we all can put this nasty business behind us" If you want truth and reconciliation, first you need the truth.
These men, who admitted to their crimes in tribunals, did things like shot a 12 year old girl in the head when she was coming back from the shops with milk, shot a man in the head while he was waving a white hanky and trying to help someone else they'd shot dead, shot a disabled man in the back as he was fleeing from them in fear, used the skull of a man they had shot dead as an ashtray...
These are the things that the British establishment are calling for an amnesty on bringing to trial. They are cartoonishly evil war crimes that we cannot let lie. This wasn't ancient history this was the 1960s-90s.
