CHAIRPERSON
They certainly were not intended in any way to 
hurt you.  I want to assure you that I am sensitive to the feelings of 
people who have been injured in the tragedy that has taken place in 
our country.
	I have been entrusted like the other members of the Amnesty 
Committee, to hear applications, we have been doing that for more 
than a year now, nearly two years.  We had been hearing harrowing 
accounts of terrible deeds committed by applicants in Cape Town 
and in other parts of the work, we have listened as patiently as we 
can to these details.
	We have afforded the applicants every opportunity to put 
forward their case, because the law requires that they should be 
given a hearing.  We have never held back requests by victims and 
dependants to express their feelings in the matters that we had to 
deal with.  And if my remarks, have conveyed to you and the other 
parents and victims, that I am not sensitive to your hurt and your 
feelings, I am sorry for that.  I want to assure you that that was 
furthest from my mind.
	Such remarks as I may have made, at the time, about the 
evidence that was given by Mr Sibaya, were as a result of a lengthy 
hearing on evidence in a matter which was only tangentially related 
to the issues before this Committee.
	I haven't made up my mind, we haven't considered the 
evidence and we haven't rejected the evidence of any witness who 
has given evidence before us.  We will only be considering the 
evidence and evaluating the evidence and coming to a final 
conclusion after all the evidence have been led and counsel on both 
sides have had an opportunity of addressing us.
	Finally, to you and your colleagues, once more, I say that if 
my remarks may have seemed injudicious to you, I am sorry for that.