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Information relating to the actual events of POWs held by the Japanese has been
restricted in the past. As one example:
In
Australia, Mr Sinclair, Secretary for the Department of the Army, wrote in mid
1946, regarding the official report produced for the International War Crimes
Commission
“with
regard to the request that Sir William Webb’s report…be made available, … it is
considered both inadvisable and undesirable that any information contained in
the report, other than that which has already appeared in the Press, should be
released to the general public. This decision is prompted by a sympathetic
consideration for the personal feelings of the next of kin of those unfortunate
members of the Australian Military Forces who were subjects of such brutal and
inhumane treatment at the hands of their captors.”
It seems
probable that this was not the only instance where
information was not fully disclosed.
Source:
Behind
Bamboo by Rohan D Rivett |
