Shooting an Elephant

Definition of enemy: person actively hostile to another.
According to this definition, the Burmese and the British were enemies. This is because the British forced themselves on the Burmese and became their leaders. While the British hated Burmese because of their difference in religion, caste and their behavior against them
George Orwell's enemy were british and Burmese. The reason why british were his enemy was they were forcing him to rule on the burmese which he did not wanted to do. And burmese was his enemy because they were not giving him respect and they were cracking jokes on him because he was with british and burmese hated britishers.