The Terrible Itch of War
Wars, without doubt, are the most brutal of human horrors. They are also the most ironic. Last month, a team from Japan arrived in Guwahati to take home their dead from the war cemetery. They came in the winter chill looking for their dead comrades in the thick mist of the Chitranchal Hills. Here, they had rested for sixty eight years along with British, Canadian, Australian, Indian and Chinese soldiers, eleven servicemen, killed fighting British and Indian troops in April-June 1944 in the Burma Campaign. They are a long way from home. Such was their itch for war…
