Read the excerpt. … in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people. … I was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-European feeling was very bitter. … As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … I was all for the Burmese and all against their opressors, the British. What is the situational irony in the excerpt from “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell?