WILLEM JOHANNES VAN DER MERWE
That was an entirely different matter for me.  It was already a bit of a risk to bring the people in across that distance to Seshego. To bring in six people who at that stage we suspected to be well-trained and armed, to bring them across that distance and allow them to enter a residential area, was risky because there could be some fighting and some of them could escape and we might be unable to actually trace them and arrest them.
	We wanted to make sure that it happened at a strategic place not far from the border where we had the advantage of terrain and also because we could do a show of force there which would help us and there wouldn't be bystanders who could become involved in the shooting.