“Everyone is just a regular man until they put a bullet in your head,” Zenpo said. “It doesn’t matter if they’re Jap lovers or Commies—we can’t make any mistakes. ‘It is better to kill a thousand innocent men than to let one guilty man live.’ ”[14] Haiwen had heard this saying before, had heard it floating around among certain fanatical leaders who were zealous about their quest to root out and defeat the Communists, but it shocked him to hear Zenpo parroting it.
