DUMA MOSES NKOSI
What I can say here is that yes, there were arms in our areas.  The truth is that we brought armed people together.  I don't know what would have happened if or had we just folded our arms and looked and did nothing about it fearing that people would start pointing fingers at us.  We realised then that the only way to contribute positively to this was that the community was under attack at the time and therefore really we could not have folded our arms whilst things were going wrong.  I am trying to explain here what it is that we did in response to being attacked.  I am simply saying here that some people who are writing like you are saying would have been happier had we sat down and did nothing about the situation.  We realised that that was not the road for us to take, we had to protect our lives, we did all we could in a war situation and nobody is right.  Everybody is in the wrong, nobody would say I am in the wrong but we are saying because it was a war situation, yes people died, people got injured, there was damage to property and we are therefore saying we did not contribute by simply protecting ourselves.