As described in one of his birthday messages : Throughout the war , Mr W. E. Perera was not affected by the atrocities of the Japanese soldiers or the Communists but he was not immune to other factions which he thought were war opportunists . W. E. Perera slapped an Indian National Army health officer who rebuked him for contributing only 5 Japanese dollars for their movement . This landed W. E. Perera being branded a traitor , arrested and detained in the Kempeitai jail . However , after a few hours , he was released when his friends who worked for the Japanese protested his innocence to the Kempeitai
atrocities of the Japanese soldiers
Japanese war crimes
Weeratunge Edward Perera