For the record, I’m not suggesting anyone is complicit in any homicidal plot. I’m trying to resolve discrepancies in the news reports versus the stories told by the survivors, and then compare all of that to what we see on the video and the still pictures. I’m asking questions, which any wise and reasonable person would do, considering the changing stories and the “facts” that don’t add up, not to mention the stories that are being scrubbed even as we write. I’m not questioning Yamamoto at all. He’s not been quoted yet, so far as I know. What doesn’t hang together is the narrative told by the priest, which he says he heard from Yamamoto.
You are asking questions - which, as you say, any wise and reasonable person would do, and I am trying to answer them in the only way I see from the images and the video, which are less clear than we would like them be.
I long ago gave up the idea of trying to make sense of the pathetic standard of reporting in connection with this event, right from the beginning, it was evident there was going to be a problem with the simple matter of WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE WHY & HOW.
Since they stopped teaching that at journalism school, it’s all downhill and guesswork, and stupid although attractive faces on the screen.