Shooting an Elephant

Why does the author feel he was important?

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He was a British officer, part of the colonial occupying force, so the local Burmese hated him.
In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.