A fascinating read as usual The Japanese were notoriously cruel to POWs - an extended and long winded double tap, if you like.

I don't know how useful the Geneva convention is. Men at war - and those giving orders - don't seem to be held accountable and after the job is done and the end is achieved, well, who seems to really care? It's almost impossible to bring them to account and even then it happens again, and again, and again. Men in charge seem to laugh in the face of morality and legality, like that evil fucker in Israel.