"visited Thailand many times after that, and did charitable work for the surviving Asian labourers, many of whom were unable to return home to India or after the war and dragged out miserable lives in villages near the railway; and he opened a temple of peace on the , and spoke out against . It all seemed admirable, but I read about these things with a surprising sense of detachment. I had expected to feel some more powerful emotion, but apart from the eerie feeling of being present at my own torture as an onlooker I felt empty. And I wondered at his feeling that he had been forgiven. God may have forgiven him, but I had not; mere human forgiveness is another matter."
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Eric Lomax
(30 May 1919 – 8 October 2012) was a Scottish railway enthusiast and British Army officer who was a of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945. His autobiography, ‘’’’ (1995), won the 1996 .
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