MS BURTON READS STATEMENT
That's right, thank you.
	I would like to give my sincere thanks to the Truth Commission for affording me the long awaited opportunity to hear these proceedings and to be able to respond.  On the 14th June 1986 my family suffered the loss of my sister, Julie van der Linde.  She was a young 28 year old woman at the time of her death.  She was not a soldier or a police person.  She was a civilian.  She was murdered by Robert McBride in the Why Not/Magoo's bar bomb attack. 
	Ten months later, my family buried my father.  He was unable to deal with the shock and horror of his baby daughter's death.  Aboobaker Ismail was the commanding officer of the terrorist operatives, a commander who says he assumes responsibility for all the activities that his operatives carried out but he did not know that the Why Not bar was the target of attack on the 14th June 1986.  He has indicated that he would have chosen the Natal Command Military Base on the Marine Parade.  In fact, as the commanding officer, he knew hardly anything about everything.  His terrorist army seldom reported back to him, he gave commands that were not carried out, he relied on newspaper reports pasted in a scrapbook to keep himself updated with all the movements of his commandos.  He handed weapons and kilograms of explosives to 19, 20 and 21 years old boys, boys whose training consisted of a few weeks in some cases a few days and then turned them loose on society, all of them to do as they pleased.
	Aboobaker Ismail says that he was fighting a war.  I have sat here and heard Robert McBride with arrogance and pride boast of all the crimes he committed during this period and that he chose the Why Not/Magoo's bar because he'd been told that this bar was frequented by military and police personnel.  I do not believe him.  I heard his story of how he once went to the Magoo's bar with the intention of joining the people inside but he said that he was refused entry because the bar was too full but he could clearly see that this was not the case.  I believe that this was the reason that he chose the Magoo's bar on the 14th June 1986, he chose this bar to vent his own personal anger and not because he was ordered to do so.  I do not believe that this was an ANC organised operation.  Robert McBride is asking the Truth and Reconciliation Committee to dish amnesty onto a silver platter and hand it to him.
	Recent news reports have reported his involvement in a Cape Town brawl and that he spent six months in a jail outside of South Africa.  I have not read in the newspapers that Robert McBride speaks out against rape, I have not heard in the news that Robert McBride is going to establish a special armed unit to free this country of violence and crime.  What has Robert McBride done to earn amnesty?  What has Robert McBride done to deserve amnesty?  Robert McBride is a despicable man.
	I respectfully appeal to the Truth Commission to deny amnesty to Robert McBride and all who were involved in the bombing of the Why Not/Magoo's bar.  Thank you.