MARIUS OELSCHIG
Chairman, the troops of the Ciskei Defence Force were not deployed in a crowd control situation, not at all.  That was the task and the responsibility of the Ciskei police.  Our role, as has been indicated by the operational commanders on the ground, was to lend support to the Ciskei police should a situation develop which they themselves could not deal with.  They, the Ciskei police, would have applied all the levels of minimum force and they were equipped to do so.  The Ciskei Defence Force is not or was not equipped for crowd control.