Most people in general, are not secretive by default. Most people have trouble keeping a secret untill unless they are personally invested in keeping the particular information secret. As in, is related to them personally and affects them directly and deeply.
See, most people are likely to keep a thing secret, only if they feel somewhat guilty about it. Only if they have an iota of understanding that what they have committed is somewhat wrong in nature.
Secrecy requires more than logical thinking, because all logical thinking is motivated by human emotion first. Which means secrecy requires guilt, or shame or fear or something like that.
But when you want your entire organisation to commit war crimes again and again, you are compelled to create a culture where certain things are not seen inherently wrong at all.
You create such a culture through propaganda and ideological indoctrination of course.
And when you create such a culture, your people will loose that sentimental motivation. That psychological restraint to keep things a secret.
Because in their head, it's like: "why should I hesitate? Why should I keep secret? I've done nothing wrong at all?"
it's just the nature of mass on mass crime.It can't be kept a secret because it requires an anti-guilt culture.