Even though scholars have taken issue with her over the way in which she arrived at her numbers, her claims have fuelled the paranoia among the ultra-nationalists and encouraged factions in China, who still reckon that the atrocity can provide justification for some sort of moral blackmail against Japan.
They're in front of the camera because they want to be, telling stories about life in the Shin Bet's moral and operational shadows for reasons that clearly include self-justification the settling of scores against those who ignored their advice or turned against their agency but, just as clearly, a desire to enunciate their passionately held beliefs.