In general the continued changes and delays regarding Japanese policy towards Burmese independence contributed to a sense of friction between the occupying Japanese army and the Burmese. By March 1942 there were incidents of fist fighting between Burmese and Japanese soldiers. The Japanese Army's actions to limit Burmese autonomy seemed to confirm the suspicions of Aung San, who had warned his comrades before the invasion of Burma began to beware Japanese duplicity, and to use caution when dealing with them. He complained about being merely Suzuki Keiji's Senior Staff Officer, rather than being in charge of his own soldiers. Another source of friction between the Japanese and the Burmese was the forced labour conscription, torture, and disappearances of people by the Japanese army and secret police. Aung San eventually came to suspect that the Japanese Army often gave his forces marching orders simply to keep them busy and to keep them out of the way. By the beginning of the Japanese occupation Aung San and other Burmese leaders were already considering a resistance against the Japanese; but, as he wrote, "everything was in confusion". He wrote that, under the Japanese, the Burmese people were "treated like dogs". In the end, due to their general lack of training, organization, and resources, Aung San and his comrades resolved to continue working with the Japanese until a favourable alternative presented itself.