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always the option of not participating in burning anyone
He took the only other option there is. You think they won't murder him in jail for refusing. You haven't been paying attention.
Not really an option there unless you feel the country or subject yourself to arrest, everyone is a conscript there isn't really a separation of civilian and military life
You're right, leaving the colonialist project or getting arrested and jailed for a couple months is so much worse than committing genocide then immolating yourself because your brain can't comprehend the suffering you've caused. He really had no choice.
Not an excuse, doesn't lessen their atrocities even slightly.
Get arrested then. It's better than killing civilians. If you think not getting arrested is worth committing a literal genocide, you're an objectively horrible person and are not worthy of the least bit of respect or sympathy. The laws written after WWII specifically rejects the notion that soldiers can absolve themselves of responsibility by following orders.
so there really are options, is what you're saying
so just commiting genocide then? no other option.
Obviously this guy would have been better off fleeing the country or going to jail, committing genocide has literally ruined his own life too.
So they need to laugh, while filming themselves killing children and other innocent people?