MR BOTHA
Chairperson, firstly I was a policeman.  I supported the National Party and the National Party was the government of the day.
	I assisted in keeping the government and the party in power, because as the Security Branch, and this is how we viewed it, the police in the country, we saw as the only line between the government in place and the take over of the communists.
	And from that background, and seen in the light of the circumstances under which I took those decisions, I made those decisions as was executed.