UN General Assembly
1951

45. Then came the dreadful years of occupation, with their nightmarish horrors and bombing and strafing by Allied airmen. In 1945 came the Allied advance and the consequent withdrawal of the occupying army, with the killing and harassment characteristic of a beaten army; there was also more bombing by Allied airmen of all the structures which still stood and which could have served as a shelter for the retreating army. We were eventually liberated — but at what a price and with what dreadful loss of life. The scars of war remain in Burma even today, so that we are unable to forget what we should like to forget.