How does Orwell feel about the Burmans in "Shooting and Elephant"?

From his introduction, George Orwell seems to have
ambivalent feelings about the Burmese.   On the one hand, he states that he is
theoretically and secretly "all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the
British and he feels an "intolerable sense of guilt" for the "wretched prisoners."   On
the other hand, he writes that he feels rage toward the "evil-spirited little beasts who
tried to make his job impossible:

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With one part of my mind I though of the British
Raj as an unbreakable tyranny, as something clamped down...upon the will of prostrate
peoples; with another part I thought that the greatest joy in the world would be to
drive a bayonet into a Buddhist priest's
guts.

It is ironic
that Orwell is exploited by those who are themselves exploited by the British. Because
of the conduct expected of a British official, Orwell cannot allow the elephant to live,
as he knows that he should.  As he contemplates whether to allow the elephant to live or
to shoot it in order to display his lack of fear, Orwell thinks that if anything goes
wrong,

those
two thousand Burmans would see me pursued, caught, trampled on, and reduced to a
grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill.  And if that happened it was quite
probable that some of them would laugh.  That would never
do.

And, so Orwell shoots the
elephant "solely to avoid looking like a fool."  And, like the Burmans who hate their
British oppressors, Orwell hates his oppressors in this situation, the Burmans, whom he
blames for his comprising of his principles:  "They were going to have their bit of fun,
after all," Orwell writes bitterly.