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...Independent columnist David Aaronovitch is scathing of his colleagues' rush to judgement. "Some people emit outrage like elephants' piss," he writes. "The sheer quantity of it soon covers the psychological landscape." He cites a number of accounts suggesting that the revolt was triggered by kamikaze prisoners. "Had, in 1944, a chateau full of captured SS men killed their captors and then holed up inside shooting at anything that moved, I doubt whether anyone now would have called their extinction a 'war crime', he writes. "Even so, we need to have an inquiry into what took place at Qalai Janghi. Because...
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