ANDRIES JOHANNES GERHARDUS ERWEE
Let me put it this way, I am quite honest when I say this, it was 
important for us to arrest these people and if we really believed that these insurgents 
should be shot dead summarily, there surely would have been other easier ways of 
doing it, ways which did not entail so much risk.
	For instance in this river bed which is quite wide, we could have shot them 
dead there.  I could have requested the police's Special Task Team and the Defence 
Force, we could have requested these teams to shoot the people dead.
	At the time that we threw in the gas grenade, we could have also have thrown 
in a bigger hand grenade or some other explosive device to just destroy all the people.