Letter to Breaker Morant
Helena Byers
40 Peregian Springs Dr
Peregian Spring QLD
Australia
Sir Robert Author Talbot Gascoye-Cecil
3rd Marguess of Salisbury
British Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London, UK
Dear Sir
My name is Helena Byers and I am writing to you today to request a royal pardon for a man who is now considered an Australian hero. As you know, on the 27th of February 1902 Harry Harbord Morant was murdered under your command at the young age of 38. He was not granted the opportunity of having a public trial which forbids the public to give their vote and opinion, and it is the view of many that this was an unfair decision.
Lord Kitchener, the commander of Morant, denies that he never ordered the said commands to be carried out. However, his argument is pointless because what else would he have ordered them to do? Go and bake a cake?
How else could an honest Australian man have the idea that it was ok to kill innocent people? By definition war is ‘a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country.’ In this reference the word ‘conflict’, meaning there will obviously be people being harmed and it is also obvious that you will have to defend yourself and your country against the attackers and allied forces by generally killing them.
Even if Lord Kitchener was telling the truth it would still be unfair to kill Breaker as many other solders would have murdered innocent people but where not punished.
Thank-you and i hope you take my words into consideration