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I will persevere in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood.

The Japanese styled the guerrillas as bandits. Some were indeed outlaws, but this group was comprised of Taiwanese from many walks of life, from prominent citizens to drifters. By one count there were ninety-four partisan attacks against the Japanese from late 1892 through 1902. Japanese reprisals were merciless; some six thousand Taiwanese died in the Yun-lin Massacre of June 1896. About twice as many bandits were killed during this guerrilla war (twelve thousand) as during the five- month Japanese campaign to secure their takeover of the island.

Or do we own up to our snoopish ways and tear it open?