He should deanonymize it. Denying the Aradeh Massacre is an awful thing to do. It happened and it hurt so many people and their bereaved deserve to have this at least universally acknowledged.

The Aradeh massacre was a terrible tragedy and he is keeping apprised of alien efforts towards resurrection which can someday set it right and his understanding of Olvalan law is that it's permitted to run an anonymous feedback form even if people might use it to deny the Aradeh massacre.

She's not saying he did anything illegal, but if that's what the reds are going to use this form for they don't deserve it and he should deanonymize it so they can catch a repeat.

The reds are obviously checking whether the forms are really anonymous, not expressing their sincerely felt opinion that the Aradeh massacre didn't happen.

She doesn't think that's obvious at all and she wants to go take a closer look at the deniers herself, which is part of her job.

...it's pretty obvious. Really. It's what he'd do if he wanted to know if a form was anonymous, say something that'd definitely get a response but probably not get him killed.

He's not a red. Reds will absolutely do awful things if they are given the chance.

Anitam put one in orange civil and she's been all right.

That's Anitam's business. In Orvara it is illegal to deny the Aradeh Massacre and she needs his cooperation to deliver the guilty red as she has been instructed and her boss is on her case about it, has he no heart?

She is welcome to tell her boss it's all the fault of the Anitami blues who are all serious about their anonymous forms being anonymous.

The coordinator of red social work in Orvara emails to ask if he really has to escalate this.

No! He doesn't! He can just ignore it and soon he won't have any reds to worry about!

The coordinator kicks it to foreign affairs. Foreign affairs sends Aitim a polite message saying that they're aware that the Aradeh Massacre didn't get a lot of attention overseas but they really do take that seriously and need to know which red it was, or at least which neighborhood.

...maybe there was some kind of misunderstanding. He set up an anonymous form. Because it was an anonymous form, that information was not stored, and he doesn't have it. 

Right, they're not saying he did anything illegal, but they want him to deanonymize the form in case the crime is repeated.

He's happy to replace it with a form that is non-anonymous and labelled as such but that seems unlikely to serve the purpose the original, anonymous one was going to serve.

No, they don't want him to change the label.

Oh, see, in Anitam lying while acting in an official capacity is illegal.

The form's in Orvara and it's reds.

...the form is on the internet. Just like it'd be a problem if Orvarans denied the massacre on an Anitami web form it is a problem if an Anitami government official lies on an Orvaran web form. It doesn't matter who they lie to; what's at question is his integrity, not the deservingness of his audience.

They attempt to figure out who his boss is.

"You know," says Intal Neli, the senior member of the Anitami ruling council, "that is a damn good question."

"...who his boss is?"

"Yes."

"I'm not sure what you're saying."